LOCATION: Tiananmen Square TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space TOPIC: Tiananmen anniversary NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: International Broadcaster DESCRIPTION: Our TV crew was stopped at security and not allowed to enter Tiananmen Square to film. We were told there was a new regulation. The crew asked to see it, but the authorities declined. When the crew asked [...]

LOCATION: Beijing TYPE OF INCIDENT: Detention, Sources Harassed, TOPIC: Tiananmen anniversary NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: TV Broadcaster We drove around the block and passed the same spot and saw that all the students we had interviewed were being questioned. DESCRIPTION: In the morning we went to interview students in front Beida University. Seven minutes after we started five [...]

LOCATION: Tiananmen Square TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space TOPIC: Tiananmen anniversary NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Italian TV The authorities asked us to go with them to “an office close to the square” to apply to film in Tiananmen. I explained that I saw no reason since we are accredited journalists. He replied that “new rules” were [...]

LOCATION: Tiananmen Square, Beijing TYPE OF INCIDENT: Detention, plainclothes obstruction, bureaucratic interference TOPIC: Tiananmen anniversary NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: International broadcaster. American reporter, German cameraman, Chinese producer “This is the first time I’ve had a chorus of 30 plain clothes officers say they saw something that didn’t happen. That means they can frame foreign journalists for doing things [...]

LOCATION: Tiananmen Square TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space TOPIC: Tiananmen anniversary NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: TV Broadcaster DESCRIPTION: We went to Tiananmen Square and got through the cordon. After we set up our camera a policeman ran after us and told us we had to register at the Tiananmen office. We went to the office but [...]