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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Hebei Police Harass Journalists Reporting On Water
Police and local officials who refused to identify hemselves followed for nine hours, harassed and briefly detained three foreign journalists, their Chinese assistant and a source traveling with them in Hebei Province. The media were trying to report on water diversion to Beijing. The journalists – one each from the U.S., the Netherlands, and Spain [...]
Tags: Hebei
Sichuan Police Block Irish Journalist From Parents’ Homes
Plainclothes police in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, turned Irish Times journalist Clifford Coonan and a photographer away from the home of parents whose children died in the May 12 earthquake. Later authorities further harassed Coonan, intimidated his Chinese sources in a bid to prevent them from giving interviews, and compelled the photographer to erase photos. The [...]
Tags: Sichuan
WSJ Reporter Ordered To Leave Sichuan Towns
The Wall Street Journal reported that, during the second week in June, police barred one of its correspondents from entering neighborhoods around four collapsed schools and ordered him to leave three such towns, including Xianger. The WSJ said one of its reporters was sought out by Wang Guoqing of the State Council Information office, who [...]
Tags: Sichuan
Shanxi Officials Block Journalists’ Access To Coal Mine
Local officials and police followed for three days and harassed a reporter and photographer from the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, preventing them from interviewing miners and local residents about a coal mine disaster in Shanxi province. Ten uniformed officers blocked the journalists from getting near the mine outside of Xiaoyi. The officers, who refused to [...]
Tags: Shanxi
Keep Quake Sites Open To Press
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is concerned about the recent increase in reporting interference cases in Sichuan. Coming a month after the earthquake, the tightening restrictions in some areas run contrary to the openness that was widely praised in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Entire towns, such as Dujiangyuan, have been declared off-limits [...]
