Bbc Reporters Detained

Journalists should not engage in activities unrelated to their role, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after broadcaster BBC said one of its reporters had been assaulted and detained while covering weekend protests in Shanghai.

China's foreign ministry said Monday that a BBC reporter arrested at a protest in Shanghai over the weekend had not identified himself as a journalist, after the British broadcaster said one of their staff had been arrested and beaten by police.

The captain of an Iranian tanker seized in Gibraltar, provoking a diplomatic crisis between Tehran and London, has accused Royal Marines of unnecessary "brute force" when detaining the ship, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Turkish authorities have detained two reporters working for foreign news organizations in southeast Turkey, the latest journalists taken into custody in the government's sweeping crackdown following July's failed coup.

A BBC reporter in North Korea was detained, interrogated for eight hours and eventually expelled over his reporting in the run-up to a rare ruling party congress, the British broadcaster said Monday.

A BBC crew was detained for two nights for reporting on conditions of migrant workers involved in construction of Qatar's 2022 football World Cup venues.

Three British Broadcasting Corporation staff were detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-regime soldiers in Libya while attempting to reach the western city of Zawiya, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.The news organisation said the crew, members of a BBC Arabic team, was detained on Monday by Moammar Gaddafi loyalists at a check ...

Journalists should not engage in activities unrelated to their role, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after broadcaster BBC said one of its reporters had been assaulted and detained while covering weekend protests in Shanghai.

China's foreign ministry said Monday that a BBC reporter arrested at a protest in Shanghai over the weekend had not identified himself as a journalist, after the British broadcaster said one of their staff had been arrested and beaten by police.

The captain of an Iranian tanker seized in Gibraltar, provoking a diplomatic crisis between Tehran and London, has accused Royal Marines of unnecessary "brute force" when detaining the ship, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Turkish authorities have detained two reporters working for foreign news organizations in southeast Turkey, the latest journalists taken into custody in the government's sweeping crackdown following July's failed coup.

A BBC reporter in North Korea was detained, interrogated for eight hours and eventually expelled over his reporting in the run-up to a rare ruling party congress, the British broadcaster said Monday.

A BBC crew was detained for two nights for reporting on conditions of migrant workers involved in construction of Qatar's 2022 football World Cup venues.

Three British Broadcasting Corporation staff were detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-regime soldiers in Libya while attempting to reach the western city of Zawiya, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.The news organisation said the crew, members of a BBC Arabic team, was detained on Monday by Moammar Gaddafi loyalists at a check ...