Police prevented a Japanese TV crew from entering an area in Dujiangyan where a school had collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake. The family they had arranged to talk to were ordered to go on a “sightseeing trip” with officials. “They didn’t want to go because they wanted to be at the school for [the quake's] [...]

Police stopped an American newspaper journalist from visiting the site of the Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan Town, Sichuan. Although the correspondent had a valid press pass to report on the earthquake, issued by the Sichuan provincial government, he was told he could not enter the town unless he registered with authorities in Dujiangyan City. [...]

Police in Dujiangyan detained a Japanese TV reporter and cameraman after they attempted to report on parents who had lost children in schools that collapsed during the Sichuan earthquake. When the crew tried to film parents crying in front of the school, police put their hands over the camera lens, then detained both the journalists [...]

Police stopped a three-person TV4 (U.K.) television team, headed by Lindsey Hilsum, from filming and interviewing parents at a middle school in Jiandi township, Shifang, where 56 children died in the earthquake. Several police followed the journalists from Deyang to Jiandi, monitoring and videotaping them throughout the town as they spoke with parents. Authorities halted [...]

Police barred filming, then detained a three-person crew from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for three hours after the journalists attempted to report from outside the barricaded grounds of the Juyuan middle school, where many students died in the May 12 earthquake. A journalist, cameraman and local producer were attempting to film outside the school when [...]