Foreign Correspondents' Club of China » Jiangsu http://www.fccchina.org The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Reporters Blocked From Covering Activist Trial in Jiangsu http://www.fccchina.org/2007/08/10/reporters-blocked-from-covering-activist-trial-in-jiangsu/ http://www.fccchina.org/2007/08/10/reporters-blocked-from-covering-activist-trial-in-jiangsu/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:27:36 +0000 FCCC Webmaster http://www.fccchina.org/?p=2120 Reporters from the South China Morning Post and the New York Times were turned away from Yixing court where they planned to cover the trial of environmental activist Wu Lihong.

Outside the courthouse, three people believed to be plainclothes police officers photographed and verbally harassed the reporters.

One of the three searched one of the journalists’ bags when the journalist stepped away, in apparent violation of constitutional protection of privacy.

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