The Sky News (DStv 402) reporter Mark Stone and cameraman Andy Portch were arrested in China in Tiananmen Square while filming, for apparently not displaying their media press passes clearly enough.
Mark Stone who is currently Sky News' Asia correspondent and Andy Portch were filming live on the air on Sky News when they were approached on Friday morning by a Chinese policeman and ordered to stop filming.
They kept the camera on and kept broadcasting live from the back of the police van as they were taken to a nearby police station.
In a later story filed for Sky News by Mark Stone, he shows how they were simply left for hours in an empty Chinese classroom and says they were arrested for not displaying their press passes visibly enough and for Mark Stone not carrying his passport with him as he is required to do in China.
Mark Stone has been reporting from Tiananmen Square on China's leadership transition in the pollution filled Beijing when suddenly ordered to stop.
According to Sky News, Mark Stone and Andy Portch had received permission to film in Tiananmen Square.
