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Daily Archives: June 3, 2008
Dujiangyan Police Detain Reporters Trying To Cover Protest
Police detained a reporter and photographer from Associated Press and told them not to cover protests by parents who lost children in the May 12 earthquake. Reporter Cara Anna and photographer Ng Han Guan arrived around 9:30 a.m. at the courthouse in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, where parents were protesting shoddy school construction. Police grabbed their [...]
Tags: Sichuan
Sichuan Police Manhandle Reporters Covering Lawsuit
Police in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, detained a reporter and photographer from Kyodo News as they were covering a story on parents who were trying to file a lawsuit over the deaths of students at a collapsed school. About ten policemen surrounded the photographer, grabbed him by his arms, and took him into a courthouse. The [...]
Tags: Sichuan