LOCATION: Sichuan Province, Chengdu TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space, followed, filmed REPORTING TOPIC: Tibet one year after March 14, 2008 riots REPORTER/ORGANIZATION: Ole Torp, NRK, Norway QUOTE: “When we stated we were in our full rights to enter...
LOCATION: Sichuan, Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, about 120 km south of Kangding TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation, journalist and staff followed and filmed, ordered to leave area TOPIC: Anniversary of the Tibetan uprising REPORTER/ORGANIZATION/NATIONALITY: Ole...
Plainclothes police in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, turned Irish Times journalist Clifford Coonan and a photographer away from the home of parents whose children died in the May 12 earthquake. Later authorities further harassed Coonan, intimidated his Chinese sources...
The Wall Street Journal reported that, during the second week in June, police barred one of its correspondents from entering neighborhoods around four collapsed schools and ordered him to leave three such towns, including Xianger. The WSJ said one of its reporters was...
Police prevented a Japanese TV crew from entering an area in Dujiangyan where a school had collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake. The family they had arranged to talk to were ordered to go on a “sightseeing trip” with officials. “They didn’t want...
