US Paper Says Reporter Was Held in China’s Inner Mongolia

In this image made from video taken in August 2020, parents confront authorities outside a school in Tongliao in Northwestern China's Inner Mongolia region. Ethnic Mongolians, including students and parents, in China’s Inner Mongolia region are demonstrating their anger in rare public protests against a new bilingual education policy that they say is endangering the Mongolian language. AP Photo

BEIJING—An American newspaper says one of its journalists was detained and then expelled from China’s Inner Mongolia region while covering tensions over a new policy that reduces the use of the Mongolian language in education.

The Los Angeles Times said in a story published online Thursday that the reporter was interrogated at a police station, grabbed by the throat, and pushed into a cell and held for more than four hours before being forced to leave the northern Chinese region.