When queueing for Olympic tickets descended into chaos , fighting erupted between police and ticket-buyers , including journalists from Hong Kong such as Cable TV Hong Kong , Hong Kong Oriental News , and the SCMP . Two Japanese journalists covering bomb attacks in Xinjiang and a British journalist covering a Tibetan independence protest in Beijing were ' roughed up ' and detained , and the British journalist claimed that his equipment was damaged . Chinese authorities apologised for the incident involving the Japanese journalists , and registered concern from the British embassy and the IOC with the latter incident
bomb attacks in Xinjiang
2008 Kashgar attack
Concerns and controversies at the 2008 Summer Olympics