Harald Maass, correspondent for the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau, was harassed after arriving in Lhasa in April to do a story on Mount Everest climbers — along with an accompanying colleague, a photographer and the local people whom they had contacted. Maass was prevented by police from going to the city of Shigatse to do [...]

A European documentary team, which the government had granted permission to report in Tibet, was repeatedly harassed by local authorities during its visit there. Authorities interrupted two interviews, once because the Tibetan language was used, and once because authorities appeared concerned the interviewee would say something critical about life in Tibet. In some locations, authorities [...]

Tibet is usually off-limits for foreign journalists as travel permits are seldom granted. So the International Press Center, that ever-helpful arm of MOFA, has been organizing annual trips for the last three years. But the value of the Tibet trip seems to be diminishing rapidly. Many of the 30 or so journalists who traveled there [...]