Video showed BBC reporter Ed Lawrence being dragged to the ground by four police officers
A senior BBC journalist was beaten and detained by police in Shanghai while covering a protest on Sunday, the broadcaster said, in one of several incidents of the Chinese authorities trying to stop foreign journalists reporting on the rare anti-government unrest.
On Twitter, Mr. Lawrence said he understood that “at least one local national was arrested after trying to stop the police from beating me.” “Under Chinese law, foreign journalists are entitled to unfettered access to report in China, and in these cases were often doing so on the streets of the very cities they are residents of,” the club said.
“The correct response is not to block journalists and their ability to work, but to let more in and to allow them to report unfettered,” the report said.
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