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Monthly Archives: January 2008
German TV Crew Blocked From Interviewing Dissident Family
Six to seven plainclothes thugs prevented a four-person ARD TV team from approaching the home of Yuan Weijing in a Shandong province village. It was the second attempt in two weeks by Germany’s ARD to talk with Yuan, wife of imprisoned blind human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng. During the first attempt, police had arrested Yuan’s brother [...]
Tags: Shandong
Beijing Police Detain Scandinavian TV Reporters
Police detained four Scandinavian television correspondents for two hours after denying them an interview with blogger Zeng Jinyan about the detention of her husband, HIV/AIDS activist Hu Jia, in late December. The reporters represented three Scandinavian TV stations. Police blocked the reporters from entering Zeng’s apartment building, then detained them because one of the team [...]
Tags: Beijing
Shanghai Police Hold Reporters After Covering Protest
Shanghai police held Ola Wong of the Swedish daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet and a Canadian freelance photographer for one hour while they were covering protestors in Shanghai’s People’s Square who oppose plans for a magnetic-levitation train project. Hundreds of Shanghai residents turned out to demonstrate against a plan to extend the existing maglev train line to [...]
Tags: Shanghai
Detentions Tarnish China’s Free Reporting Pledge
As China enters the year of the Beijing Olympics, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) has identified hot spots where journalists have experienced repeated violations of China’s new reporting regulations. “While the year-old regulations have improved overall reporting conditions for foreign journalists, we are particularly troubled by repeated violations in several areas — including [...]
