NYT: Western journalists tracked and detained in China
March 7th, 2011Posted by Sarah Marshall in Editors' pick
According to a New York Times report, foreign journalists have been tracked and detained by officials in China in an effort to clamp down on protests.
On Sunday, about a dozen European and Japanese journalists in Shanghai were herded into an underground bunkerlike room and kept for two hours after they sought to monitor the response to calls on an anonymous Internet site for Chinese citizens to conduct a “strolling” protest against the government outside the Peace Cinema, near People’s Square in Shanghai.
The Media Guardian reports that China has denied the accusations. Chinese newspaper Global Times has reportedly accused Western journalists of fabricating news to discredit the country.
Full New York Times story at this link
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