HONG KONG REPORTERS DETAINED IN CHINA WHILE COVERING PROTESTS
2005/04/17 16:34:10
Hong Kong, April 17 (CNA) Three Hong Kong journalists were
detained Sunday in Shenyang City, northeast China, while covering
anti-Japanese protests, Hong Kong media reported.
The reports said three photographers from Hong Kong’s TVB, ATV
and Cable TV were detained when they were shooting anti-Japanese
protests in Shenyang, Liaoning Province.
The arrests took place at 9: 00 a.m. local time. Public Security
agents said the three were detained because they had not obtained a
permit for covering the event.
The three Hong Kong reporters were released at noon, after being
questioned for three hours, the reports said.
Anti-Japanese protests were spreading Sunday in China, with the
provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, Liaoning in the
northeast, and Sichuan in central China reporting such events.
(By Mandy Wong & S.C. Chang)
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