Tiananmen Square Traffic Incident

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Artist: Journalists/Reporters

Year: 2013

Date of Action: October 28, 2013

Region: Asia

Location: Beijing, China

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Film/Video "Film/Video" is not in the list (Commercial Advertising, Dance, Design, Installation, Journalism, Literature, Mixed Media, Music, Online, Painting, ...) of allowed values for the "Has medium" property., Journalism, Online, Photography

Confronting Bodies: Chinese Government

Description of Artwork: Car accident in Tiananmnen Square, which involved a car driving into pedestrians and then catching on fire. The accident resulted in the death of five people.

The Incident: Chinese police arrested two Agence France-Presse reporters who attempted to cover the event. They were later released, but the photographs and video footage had been deleted from their equipment. Other reporters from different news sources had also been briefly arrested. Photographs of the event were removed from blogs, and Internet speeds were slowed down to prevent the spread of any images or information. Police physically blocked access to the square as well.

Results of Incident: No known results.

Source:
• http://en.rsf.org/china-massive-censorship-of-tiananmen-29-10-2013,
• 45393.html



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