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Harassed
March 10
Shui An-teh,Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV), HARASSED, EXPELLED
Chuang Chi-wei, TTV, HARASSED, EXPELLED
Chinese authorities deported the TTV reporters Shui and Chuang after detaining them for two days for allegedly videotaping Chinese troops conducting military exercises in southeastern Fujian Province. According to China's official Xinhua News Agency, the two journalists signed written confessions of their wrongdoing, a usual condition of release for foreign journalists detained in China. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, however, both reporters said they were unaware that they had been taping in a restricted area and maintained that they were engaged in ordinary reporting activities. In a press release, CPJ said Shui and Chuang's detention fit a pattern of continued harassment by China of Taiwanese journalists.
June 4
Chito Romana, ABC News, HARASSED, CENSORED
Richard Tullis, ABC News, HARASSED, CENSORED
Beijing Security Police detained ABC News producer Romana and cameraman Tullis as they drove around Beijing University, filming the campus. Romana and Tullis, who were held for two hours, were forced to erase the footage they had shot. The detention of the television journalists came on the seventh anniversary of the military assault on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. The demonstrations began in the Beijing University area.
July 1
Louis Wong, South China Morning Post, HARASSED
Journalist, Oriental Daily News, HARASSED, EXPELLED
Journalist, Hong Kong Standard, HARASSED
Journalist, Apple Daily, HARASSED
Journalist, Asia Television, HARASSED
Journalist, Hong Kong Daily News, HARASSED
19 other journalists, HARASSED
Chinese police detained 25 journalists at Beijing's international airport, where the journalists were attempting to cover the arrival in Beijing of eight Hong Kong legislators. The legislators had planned to deliver a petition to the Chinese government protesting China's plans to scrap the elected Hong Kong Legislative Council after the July 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.Beijing police boarded a Dragonair flight from Hong Kong that was carrying the legislators and 12 of the 25 journalists. The police expelled all the legislators and one journalist, who works for the Oriental Daily News in Hong Kong. The other journalists who were aboard the plane were allowed to disembark. But they and a number of journalists who were already in the airport to cover the legislators' trip were detained on the tarmac, at the immigration counter, or inside the airport terminal. Immigration officials forced several of the journalists to sign statements of "repentance" after the officials found that they were carrying press releases and other documents issued by the Hong Kong legislators' coalition.
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