Police prevented two Dutch correspondents from entering Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, on June 4, and later barred them from a collapsed middle school where parents had been congregating since the earthquake. The reporters for Elsevier and Radio Netherlands were turned back at a police checkpoint leading into Dujiangyan. Police told the reporters they couldn’t enter the [...]

Journalist Ole Torp and a cameraman for Norwegian Broadcasting were chased away from the Juyuan Middle School and a primary school in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, first by plainclothes officers then, a day later, by armed police who seemed to be “in full battle gear,” said Torp. Earlier, the local foreign affairs office had issued expired [...]