Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 12th - Wang Wei, the executive vice president of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, responded today to a foreign media inquiry on August 11 regarding the confiscation of Chinese journalists' equipment, clarifying that the entire incident was a complete misunderstanding.
At the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee's routine press conference on August 11, a reporter from the Sydney Morning Herald asked a question stating that on August 10, a Chinese journalist mentioned at a press conference held at the Volleyball Center an event where he had been attacked a few days ago and his equipment had been confiscated. If there is a right to freedom of press interviews, are the rules different for Western journalists and Chinese journalists?