Shanghai police held Ola Wong of the Swedish daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet and a Canadian freelance photographer for one hour while they were covering protestors in Shanghai’s People’s Square who oppose plans for a magnetic-levitation train project. Hundreds of Shanghai residents turned out to demonstrate against a plan to extend the existing maglev train line to [...]

Mayumi Otani, correspondent for Japan’s Mainichi Newspaper, was assaulted in Shanghai on March 27 while covering a demonstration in a neighborhood that was being demolished for the 2010 World Expo. Three men hit her while she was photographing a protestor who was being forced into a government car. Otani stumbled and fell into the bushes. [...]