From ESWN: What should a Chinese reporter do when an edict comes down to ban all coverage of a subject in the newspapers? Answer: Publish your field notes on the Internet for all to read! These notes explained where the famous 3-minute ‘Washington Post’ attack video actually came from.
Read MoreThe Washington Post posted a video clip of the Shengyou attack. (registration required). Editor’s Note: This video contains violent content. washingtonpost.com presents the original, unedited version as it was received. A farmer in Shengyou, China, videotaped hundreds of armed men attacking a group of local farmers. According to witness accounts, the group was resisting government […]
Read MoreNoises coming from the top level of China’s propaganda apparatus suggest rules for foreign reporters, loosened this year in preparation for the Olympics, might stay in their slackened state past the big dance. From Reuters via the Guardian: “No document says that when this new regulation expires on Oct. 17 next year we are going […]
Read MoreVia Shanghaiist: This is not news the government wants to hear in the run-up to the Olympics, but here’s a statement that the Beijing-based Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC) just sent out (h/t to the Peking Duck): Dear Members, Recently some foreign correspondents have been detained, harassed and physically roughed up — two incidents […]
Read MoreFrom UPI Asia Online: Local and Western media hailed the release of jailed New York Times Beijing Bureau researcher Zhao Yan on Sept. 15. However, the detention of two Agence France-Presse reporters near Shengyou, a village north of Beijing, three days earlier, flaunts China’s promises of press freedoms, liberal reporting rules, and suspension of decades-old […]
Read MoreViolence has again erupted in Shengyou, and foreign journalists have again been detained for trying to cover it. From AFP: Police in Shengyou village, Hebei province, detained two foreign journalists from Agence France-Presse on Wednesday after the reporters entered the village to confirm reports of August 28 clashes between police and villagers. The violence erupted […]
Read MoreBBC reporter Dan Griffiths gives a first-person account of being detained and questioned while reporting from Shengyou, Hebei, the scene of a violent conflict between villagers and police in 2005: Round a bend in the road, I see two white vans. Several policemen are standing beside them. They look as out of place in rural […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: EARLIER THIS month, Chinese police shot and killed as many as 20 protesters (the numbers are in dispute) in Dongzhou village, near Hong Kong. The use of lethal force was unusual, but the underlying grievances were commonplace: powerless townspeople demonstrating against local government practices that endanger their meager existence. Economic […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: A local Chinese Party official and 26 other people have gone on trial for their role in a bloody riot over land rights in northern China. He Feng and the others were charged with causing “intentional injuries” during a clash with protesters in Shengyou village, Hebei, in June. Six people died after […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the China Post Twenty-seven people in northern China were being tried for their involvement in a violent clash over land that left six dead, the government said Friday. The trial opened Thursday in Hebei province, where villagers protesting compensation for land seizures were attacked in June by unidentified men armed with guns […]
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