<p>The German TV teams were among the foreign reporters and media barred by police from the site of a planned anti-government protest in Beijing.<br /><br />Police detained Christine Adelhardt, correspondent for Germany's first public channel ARD, along with her team, alleging that she had no permission to film along the city's main shopping street Wangfujing.<br /><br />Adelhardt and her crew were released about four hours later.<br /><br />"We were told that there are new regulations that you can't film at certain areas without permission," Adelhardt told DPA. She was made to present a written apology that she did not know about the new rules before she was released.<br /><br />Meanwhile Johannes Hano, correspondent for the second German public channel ZDF, and his crew were also detained and remained in police custody.<br /><br />The DPA's own reporter was also detained briefly at the Wangfujing underground station close to one of dozens of designated sites for nationwide "Jasmine" protests.<br /><br />Ahead of the planned protests, Chinese authorities Friday had instructed foreign correspondents to observe China's laws, but had not informed them about the new regulations covering certain areas.<br /></p>
<p>The German TV teams were among the foreign reporters and media barred by police from the site of a planned anti-government protest in Beijing.<br /><br />Police detained Christine Adelhardt, correspondent for Germany's first public channel ARD, along with her team, alleging that she had no permission to film along the city's main shopping street Wangfujing.<br /><br />Adelhardt and her crew were released about four hours later.<br /><br />"We were told that there are new regulations that you can't film at certain areas without permission," Adelhardt told DPA. She was made to present a written apology that she did not know about the new rules before she was released.<br /><br />Meanwhile Johannes Hano, correspondent for the second German public channel ZDF, and his crew were also detained and remained in police custody.<br /><br />The DPA's own reporter was also detained briefly at the Wangfujing underground station close to one of dozens of designated sites for nationwide "Jasmine" protests.<br /><br />Ahead of the planned protests, Chinese authorities Friday had instructed foreign correspondents to observe China's laws, but had not informed them about the new regulations covering certain areas.<br /></p>