Rupert Wingfield Hayes of the BBC was followed and prevented from talking freely to villagers in Taishi, Guangdong province, where locals fear reprisals for speaking with foreign journalists. He said local officials stopped him as soon as he arrived and kept him waiting for about an hour as they took down his team’s details and [...]

Plainclothes personnel riding in a marked police vehicle detained AP correspondent Bill Foreman, and authorities escorted him out of the village of Dongzhou in southern Guangdong province. He went there to confirm reports of renewed protests in the village where two years ago three men were shot and killed in demonstrations against government land acquisition. [...]

Police in Shenzhen detained a labor rights activist Zhang Zhiru during an interview with Finnish reporter Sami Sillanpaa of Helsingin Sanomat. Two police officers entered the office and demanded Zhang accompany them to the police station. They refused to say why. The police detained Zhang for several hours, during which they asked him the identity [...]

Malaysian journalist Leu Siew Ying, who works for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, was detained by police in Panyu district, Guangzhou, for eight hours while she was attempting to cover the one-year anniversary of disturbances in Taishi village. Her mobile phone was taken away so she could not call for assistance as the [...]