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. _________________ [...]

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 [...]

LOCATION: Beijing TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, broken equipment TOPIC: Oct. 1 National Day NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Kyodo news agency/Japan The Japanese Kyodo news agency has reported that unidentified authorities in Beijing stormed the hotel room of three visiting journalists, beat them and damaged two computers. The agency says authorities stormed into the journalists’ room on Friday evening, [...]

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 [...]