Police interrupted a reporting visit by Rupert Wingfield Hayes of the BBC to the former petitioners village near South Beijing railway station in July. While talking to locals for about half an hour, he could see an informant in a black shirt calling on a mobile phone. Police then came and took down all their [...]

Holly Williams of Sky TV was stopped by police when she and her crew attempted to film in the petitioners village near South Beijing Railway station. The police arrived within minutes and demanded that she hand over the petition papers that locals had given her. When she refused, the police took her ID into their [...]

Plainclothes and uniformed security officials blocked a live broadcast by German ZDF television from the Great Wall at Simatai, Beijing, saying the American analyst they were interviewing was “not a licensed Chinese expert.” ZDF’s Johannes Hano said his crew and sources experienced repeated “massive interference” during a week of live broadcasts all of which had [...]