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 [...]

Police detained four Scandinavian television correspondents for two hours after denying them an interview with blogger Zeng Jinyan about the detention of her husband, HIV/AIDS activist Hu Jia, in late December. The reporters represented three Scandinavian TV stations. Police blocked the reporters from entering Zeng’s apartment building, then detained them because one of the team [...]