The Chinese government said a BBC journalist arrested on Sunday failed to identify himself as a member of the press.
Lawrence was one of at least two Western journalists who reported being obstructed by Chinese police. Michael Peuker of Swiss broadcaster RTS tweeted earlier on Sunday that officers in Shanghai interrupted him and his colleagues during a live cross to the studio.
"Obstruction, intimidation, [and] harassment" were now common experiences of the international press in China, he said. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said it was"extremely disturbed by the treatment of journalists covering recent protests in Shanghai and Beijing." "Journalists from multiple outlets were physically harassed by police while covering the unrest, and at least two journalists were detained. In one particularly alarming incident, a British journalist was seen being wrestled to the ground by multiple officers before being led away," it said in a statement on Monday.
This frame grab from AFPTV video footage shows police detaining a person on Wulumuqi Road, named for Urumqi in Mandarin, in Shanghai on November 28, 2022, where protesters gathered over the weekend to protest against China's COVID-19 restrictions following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region on November 24"Under Chinese law, foreign journalists are entitled to unfettered access to report in China.
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