"You Will Be Harassed and Detained"

I. Summary

II. Background: Longstanding Constraints on Media Freedom in China

International Standards of Media Freedom...

III. Harassment, Detention, and Intimidation of Foreign Correspondents Despite the New Regulations

A. Harassment by Government, Party, and Security Officials

B. Harassment by Plainclothes Thugs

C. Illegal Detention of Foreign Correspondents

D. Intimidation by China's Ministry of ForeignAffairs

E. Outside the Temporary Regulations: Continuing Controls on Tibet Reporting

IV. Harassment of Foreign Correspondents' Chinese Staff and Sources

V. Harassment, Intimidation and Censorship of Chinese Journalists

VI. Recommendations

To the Chinese Government

To the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

To National Governments Sending Olympic Teams to the 2008 Beijing Olympics

To International News Organizations Planning to Cover the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Acknowledgements

Appendix I: Regulations on Reporting Activities in China by Foreign Journalists During the Beijing Olympic Games and the Preparatory Period

Appendix II: Implementation of the Regulations on Reporting Activities in China by Foreign Journalists during the Beijing Olympic Games and the Preparatory Period