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Reporter Shadowed by Officials During Sichuan Quake Reporting
The week of June 7, Marianne Barriaux of Agence France Press encountered interference while reporting in the Sichuan earthquake zone. After registering with Dujiangyan officials, she was granted access. Barriaux was working on a story about mothers who had and tried to have babies after losing children in the earthquake. Parents and NGOs warned her [...]
Tags: Sichuan
Beijing Police Question, Threaten News Assistant (Update May 26)
Update (May 26, 2010) Chinese authorities dispute the version of events outlined below, specifically the quoted remarks attributed to the police. They also dispute that the meeting was intimidating in nature. Chinese authorities say the assistant was reprimanded for a violation of the reporting regulations that prohibit news assistants from conducting independent reporting activities. _________________ [...]
Tags: Beijing
Canadian Journalist Reprimanded for Coverage of Jailed Citizen
Geoffrey York, correspondent for Canada’s Globe and Mail, was called into the Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded over his coverage of the case of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen and ethnic Uyghur who was recently found guilty of “splittism” and membership in terrorist organizations by a Xinjiang court. The ministry official expressed dissatisfaction that York [...]
Tags: Beijing
German Journalist Reprimanded for Tibet Reporting Trip
Harald Maass, correspondent for the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau, was harassed after arriving in Lhasa in April to do a story on Mount Everest climbers — along with an accompanying colleague, a photographer and the local people whom they had contacted. Maass was prevented by police from going to the city of Shigatse to do [...]
Tags: Tibet
Chengdu Police Rough Up Reporters Covering Trial
Hong Kong journalists attempting to cover the sentencing in Chengdu of writer/activist Tan Zuoren were hassled and shoved by police. One of the group reported: Nine Hong Kong reporters arrived at the Chengdu courthouse around 7 a.m. We wanted to interview the lawyer and relatives of Sichuan earthquake activist Tan Zuoren outside the courthouse, before [...]
Tags: Sichuan
