German Journalist Reprimanded for Tibet Reporting Trip

Harald Maass, correspondent for the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau, was harassed after arriving in Lhasa in April to do a story on Mount Everest climbers — along with an accompanying colleague, a photographer and the local people whom they had contacted....

China Should Allow Access To Tibetan Areas

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China urges the Chinese government to halt a wave of detentions of journalists and open Tibetan areas for news coverage. Reporters from at least six news organisation have been detained, turned back or had their tapes...

Tibet Authorities Interrupt Interviews, Require Self Censorship

A European documentary team, which the government had granted permission to report in Tibet, was repeatedly harassed by local authorities during its visit there. Authorities interrupted two interviews, once because the Tibetan language was used, and once because...

Journalists Disappointed By Official Tibet Reporting Trip

Tibet is usually off-limits for foreign journalists as travel permits are seldom granted. So the International Press Center, that ever-helpful arm of MOFA, has been organizing annual trips for the last three years. But the value of the Tibet trip seems to be...