Monthly Archives: March 2009

Incident Reports | Published March 14, 2009

Norwegian TV Barred From Tibetan Quarter In Sichuan

LOCATION: Sichuan Province, Chengdu TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space, followed, filmed REPORTING TOPIC: Tibet one year after March 14, 2008 riots REPORTER/ORGANIZATION: Ole Torp, NRK, Norway QUOTE: “When we stated we were in our full rights to enter the quarter, the commanding officer came forward and stated bluntly in Chinese that we were [...]

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Incident Reports | Published March 12, 2009

Dutch TV Barred From “Open” Tibetan Area In Qinghai

LOCATION: Qinghai Province, Qinghai lake road to Golmud, Daotanghe Zhen TYPE OF INCIDENT: Denied access to “open” area of China REPORTING TOPIC: Tibet one year after March 14, 2008 riots REPORTER/ORGANIZATION: Marijev Vlaskamp, RTL Netherlands QUOTE: “We told them we were not in a closed area, so why couldn’t we work? Our topic was not [...]

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Incident Reports | Published March 11, 2009

Norwegian Journalists Barred From Tibetan Area, Intimidated

LOCATION: Sichuan, Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, about 120 km south of Kangding TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation, journalist and staff followed and filmed, ordered to leave area TOPIC: Anniversary of the Tibetan uprising REPORTER/ORGANIZATION/NATIONALITY: Ole Torp, NRK, Norway QUOTE: “I told them I was a bonafide journalist, I presented my press card, I told them that [...]

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Statements | Published March 9, 2009

China Should Allow Access To Tibetan Areas

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China urges the Chinese government to halt a wave of detentions of journalists and open Tibetan areas for news coverage. Reporters from at least six news organisation have been detained, turned back or had their tapes confiscated in the past week as they tried to visit Tibetan areas of Gansu, [...]

Statements | Published March 6, 2009

Government Should Stop Intimidating Assistants Of Foreign Media

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is appalled at the tightening of restrictions on Chinese news assistants who have been told they will be fined and stripped of accreditations if they conduct independent interviews. The club calls for the scrapping of a new Code of Conduct, which also obliges assistants working for foreign media organisations [...]