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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Recommendations To International Olympic Committee
The FCCC regards the Olympic reporting rules introduced in January 2007 as an important step toward improving reporting conditions. Many foreign correspondents have said the reporting environment has improved, and the Foreign Ministry has often been helpful in supporting implementation of the new rules. But concerns about implementation and interpretation remain, and the FCCC continues [...]
Wuhan Police Detain Photographers Covering Property Dispute
Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, Swiss photographers, were detained for three hours in Wuchang, the southern area of Wuhan. Uniformed police detained the photographers shortly after residents started describing how they had been beaten up and threatened in a dispute over property. It was the third time the couple have been detained during their travels [...]
Tags: Hubei
Swiss Reporter Roughed Up While Covering Land Dispute In Hebei
Swiss TV correspondent Barbara Luthi and her cameraman and local assistant were roughed up and detained for seven hours in Shengyou Village, Dingzhou County, Hebei Province. One of their tapes was erased by the authorities. The Swiss TV team had been interviewing villagers at the site of a land dispute that in 2005 resulted in [...]
Tags: Hebei
TV Journalists, Source Detained After Interviewing Young Farm Girl
An Al-Jazeera television team was detained in a village in Anhui province, about an hour outside of Hefei. Melissa Chan says the team had been interviewing a young farm girl for a “very benign story on the life of a little girl.” She says local officials stopped the team and “insisted we ‘lunch’ with them.” [...]
Tags: Anhui
