Two Agence France Presse reporters were turned away by security guards when they attempted to visit the home of Zeng Jinyan, the wife of imprisoned rights activist Hu Jia. A print reporter and a television camerman tried to enter the compound at Bobo Freedom Village in Tongxian, east Beijing, but only got 10 meters inside [...]

Police damaged the camera of Guardian photographer Dan Chung as they tried to prevent him taking pictures of the aftermath of a pro-Tibet protest at the Ethnic Minorities Culture Park near the Olympic Green in Beijing. Police told Chung that neither his visible IOC accreditation nor the Olympic stickers on the equipment were of any [...]

Police in Beijing roughed up and detained a British journalist after he covered a Free Tibet protest close to the city’s main Olympic zone. John Ray of Independent Television News said he was pinned down by police, dragged along the floor and pushed into a police van. The authorities also confiscated his equipment, pulled off [...]

Two police officers in an unmarked car followed and briefly questioned two Scandinavian journalists working together on a story in an eastern suburb of Beijing. Police arrived in Pingfang village and demanded to see the identification of Beijing-based Sami Sillanpaa of Helsingen Sanomat and Philip Lote, a visiting correspondent from Norwegian television. The reporting pair [...]