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On the morning of October 20 in Haikou, Hainan, a reporter from “Live Broadcast Hainan” went to the Hainan Yong’an Education and Training Center to verify complaints from students who had paid fees for years without receiving their correspondence-course bachelor’s degree certificates. After showing identification, the reporter was still shoved and punched by staff of the institution, and the camera was snatched and smashed. Reporter He Jiangzhou sustained multiple lacerations on his hands, and the interview was cut short.

On October 6, the Taichung District Prosecutors Office indicted Hong Kong man Liao Gang-fa over the attack on Akio Yaita, accusing a 5-person gang of being hired to come to Taiwan to commit violence, and saying the public assault was intended to create a "kill one to warn a hundred" effect. Prosecutors are seeking a 5-year sentence, have issued wanted notices for 4 accomplices who had already left the country, and are pursuing the mastermind in a separate case.

During on-site reporting, the reporter was obstructed by suspected CCP personnel, including having their camera lens blocked by umbrellas, being physically blocked from filming, and even receiving threatening gestures. The reporter felt threatened.

Wu Zhongmin, a reporter from Jiangxi Radio and Television Station, was slapped in the face by the father of the person in charge of a company involved in a dispute while interviewing at a Xiaer Baba homestay in Shenzhen. The All-China Journalists Association has spoken out in support of the reporter's right to perform their duties according to law and demanded severe punishment for the assailant.

On September 3, 2026, The Economist reported that when its reporter traveled to Kangbao County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, to investigate the formaldehyde cabbage incident, they were obstructed on the spot by local police and officials from the propaganda department, who refused to answer any questions.

A photojournalist was pulled away by Chinese accompanying security personnel while approaching the delegation to shoot near the red carpet at Bishkek airport, and was blocked again at the entrance of the VIP building when he followed them a second time.

On November 14, Wang Wenzhi and Cheng Zilong, journalists with Xinhua News Agency's Economic Information Daily, were beaten while reporting at a China Railway Seventh Group construction site on the Hefei–Xinjiang high-speed railway in Anhui, and their phones were seized. On-site video shows a person in charge admitting that the reporters' phones were confiscated, and saying the beating may have been carried out by his subordinates.

On October 19, 2013, New Express Daily reporter Chen Yongzhou was criminally detained across provincial lines by Changsha police on suspicion of damaging commercial reputation after publishing reports critical of Zoomlion; the newspaper subsequently ran "Please release him" on its front page.