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Mark Stone was briefly detained after mentioning 1989 in Tiananmen Square this week. It’s not the first time the media has run into trouble with the Chinese while filming in their country.
In 2009, CNN reporters were blocked by plain clothed men who blocked the view of Tiananmen Square whenever filming was taking place.
In 2011, ABC TV’s Foreign Correspondent program reporter Stephen McDonell was followed by the same 4 or 5 men over the course of five days. When he decided to confront them, it escalated quickly.
While these reporters are generally harassed and let go, if they were Chinese citizens doing the same thing, they would, most likely be indefinitely detained.
British reporter, Mark Stone was filming from Tiananmen Square in Beijing when he was detained by the police.
Stone later reported that they did have permission to film, but they weren’t displaying their passes correctly and he did not have his passport on him, something that is required in China. This is why they were detained by the Chinese police.http://news.sky.com/story/1065052/china-detains-sky-correspondent-in-beijing
