Aug 11, 2008
A visiting British photojournalist attempting to cover the aftermath of bombings in Xinjiang was detained for 7.5 hours by police, who said his travel documents were insufficient. Jack Hill, a British photographer with The Times, renewed his J-2 visiting journalist...
Aug 8, 2008
An Associated Press writer and photographer were questioned by police, searched and detained at various locations over three days while covering the aftermath of bombings in Xinjiang province. AP journalist William Foreman and a photographer arrived in Yining,...
Aug 4, 2008
Police insisted on seeing and deleting photographs taken by an Agence France Presse photographer who was covering the killing of paramilitary police in Kashgar, Xinjiang. The photographer, who was with two colleagues in a hotel room overlooking the site of the attack,...
Aug 4, 2008
Paramilitary police detained, kicked and beat two Japanese journalists attempting to cover the aftermath of deadly attacks on police in Kashgar, Xinjiang. Paramilitaries forcibly removed from a public street then beat and detained Masami Kawakita, an...
Oct 4, 2007
Swiss photographers Monika Fischer and Mathias Braschler were detained for five hours in Urumqi after photographing a uniformed man they saw walking along a railway track. The man gave his permission to be photographed. The police said the photographers were not...
