September 4th 2014 Xinjiang, Yarkent The reporter working for the Los Angeles Times was “shadowed” by 2 black-clad officers who appeared in the restaurant she was having lunch in just moments after arriving in town. They made no effort to be inconspicuous....
Two reporters from The Associated Press reporting in Urumqi following an attack on May 22 were followed around, asked to leave Uighur neighborhoods and barred from conducting interviews. A reporter was at a hospital interviewing survivors of the attack on May 23 when...
Reviewing the conditions under which foreign reporters work in China, the FCCC is disturbed to note a number of negative trends over the past year. – In particular, we have found that the Chinese authorities are increasingly using the denial of visas, or delays...
Correspondents should be aware that one of our colleagues was detained recently in Urumqi and that during his interrogation uniformed police officers repeatedly told him that in Xinjiang the normal reporting rules do not apply, and that we are required to register and...
Stefan Blommaert, correspondent for VRT (Belgian TV and radio) was detained along with his cameraman and producer for three hours in Urumqi on Tuesday July 30th by policemen who told him he needed special permission to film in Xinjiang. That is not the case, according...
