Daily Archives: August 8, 2006

Detentions Of Foreign Journalists Widespread Before Olympics

Two years before more than 20,000 international journalists descend on Beijing for the opening of the Olympic Games on August 8, 2008, a survey by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China shows that Chinese authorities frequently detain foreign reporters, and occasionally use violence against them and their sources. Since 2004 – the year in which [...]