Media reporters in Zhengzhou China are being harassed by local people as authorities appear to be looking for @BBC China Correspondent @robindbrant.
This thread is one of two about an incident in which two reporters were surrounded and @mare_porter was accused of being Brant.
This thread is one of two about an incident in which two reporters were surrounded and @mare_porter was accused of being Brant.
https://twitter.com/mare_porter/status/1419171665121062913
Here is Beijing @latimes bureau chief @aliceysu's thread. Alice and Mathias both filmed the incident which took place a few hours ago.
https://twitter.com/aliceysu/status/1419143272904069126?s=20
The crowd showed pictures of the BBC's @robindbrant who was one of the first Western reporters on the ground covering the floods. Brant arrived in Zhengzhou the day after the floods on July 21st.
https://twitter.com/robindbrant/status/1417936025045798912?s=20
@robindbrant's first report for BBC News was posted in that evening, in the early hours of July 22nd locally.
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1417995824139747330?s=20
@robindbrant Later that morning he filed a second report featuring drone footage of the scene.
https://twitter.com/robindbrant/status/1418142754752761861?s=20
He continued to tweet on the 22nd and 23rd and, based on his tweets appeared on @BBCr4today on the 22nd and had an item in the 6pm bulletin.
This is his last tweet was posted late on the 23rd local time.
This is his last tweet was posted late on the 23rd local time.
https://twitter.com/robindbrant/status/1418578791589314562?s=20
You can listen to his live cross on BBC's Today program on Thursday morning (22nd) here. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…
The @robindbrant video report from the scene can be viewed here (this is the one he tweeted - above in the thread). bbc.com/news/av/world-…
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