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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Kashgar Police Detain Journalist And Source
Police detained and questioned for three hours James Miles of the Economist along with a local driver and a Uighur source, confiscated the identification documents of the two Uighur men and warned Miles not to report on what he had seen in Kashgar. Miles was interviewing a source in a public area when the source [...]
Tags: Xinjiang
China Fails To Make Olympic Podium On Media Freedom
As the Beijing Olympics draws to a close, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China urges the government to move decisively to make media openness a legacy of the Games. Despite welcome progress in terms of accessibility and the number of press conferences within the Olympic facilities, the FCCC has been alarmed at the use of [...]
Officials Block Filming Of Farmer
Officials interrupted filming of a corn farmer in Mancheng, Hebei province by a Sky TV crew that was working on a story about the drought in northern China. Holly Williams said the officials very aggressively told the woman farmer to halt what she was doing and then demanded to see the IDs of the film [...]
Tags: Hebei
Photographers Roughed Up By Police
Two Associated Press photographers attempting to cover an Olympics-timed protest were roughed up by plainclothes security officers, forced into cars and taken to a nearby building where they were questioned before being released, the news service reported. Memory cards from their cameras were confiscated. The two were separately trying to find a planned protest by [...]
Tags: Beijing
Finnish Reporter Harrassed
Katri Makkonen of Finnish Broadcasting Company and two others were followed by three men who prevented her from talking to locals in the Caochangdi district of Beijing about how they were enjoying the Olympics. “Three goons followed us everywhere after we went to interview a lady in a shop watching a black-and-white TV they told [...]
Tags: Beijing
