Gansu Police Block Guardian Reporter From Protest Area

Police turned back a reporter from Britain’s The Guardian after he drove over a mountain pass to enter an Linxia, Gansu province, an area near the border between with Sichuan where protests had taken place. Reporter Jonathan Watts said an English-speaking...

Gansu Police Detain TV Crew Outside Monastery Town

Police detained a Finnish Broadcasting Co. correspondent and cameraman outside the monastery town of Xiahe in Gansu province and threatened to confiscate their footage. The team arrived in Xiahe on March 15, and was trying to leave when law enforcement officers...

Kyodo Reporter Forced To Leave Two Tibetan Areas

Five policemen entered a hotel room in Tongren, Qinghai province where a Kyodo News reporter was staying at around 1:30 a.m. and demanded to see his identification papers. Local foreign affairs officials later told the reporter to leave the area because it was...