Six foreigners given 10 days’ detention: Beijing police
August 21, 2008
AFP
August 21, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing police said Thursday it had handed out 10-day detention terms to six foreigners believed by an overseas activist group to be pro-Tibet campaigners involved in Olympic protests this week.
In a brief faxed statement, the city police information department said “Thomas” and five other foreigners had been [...]
Police Detain More Foreign Activists in Beijing - Police detain 4 foreign activists outside main Olympics venue in latest protest at games
August 21, 2008
ABC
By AUDRA ANG Associated Press Writer
BEIJING August 21, 2008 (AP)
The Associated Press
A plain clothed security official, bottom right, grabs a Tibetan flag from three pro-Tibet activists…
A plain clothed security official, bottom right, grabs a Tibetan flag from three pro-Tibet activists as they gesture in protest opposite the National Stadium, where [...]
2 Chinese sentenced to labour camp for protest request during Olympics
August 20, 2008
The Canadian Press
August 20, 2008
BEIJING — Two Chinese women in their 70s who applied to hold a protest during the Olympic Games were ordered to spend a year in a labour camp, a relative said Wednesday, as more foreign activists were detained.
79-year-old Wu Dianyuan, center, and her neighbor Wang Xiuying, 77, wait to apply for [...]
China detains six US pro-Tibet activists at Olympics
August 20, 2008
AFP
August 20, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) — China has detained six American pro-Tibet activists, including an artist who planned to project a giant laser beam onto a Beijing building at the Olympics, a group said Wednesday.
A Chinese policeman, seen here on August 13, takes pictures of journalists during a pro-Tibet protest
James Powderly, the co-founder of art group [...]
5 Americans Are Arrested for Protest in Beijing
August 19, 2008
New York Times
Published: August 19, 2008
By ANDREW JACOBS and COLIN MOYNIHAN
Five Americans unfurled a banner in Olympic Park in Beijing with “Free Tibet” spelled out in lights in English and Chinese. (Image: Students for a Free Tibet)
BEIJING — In their latest confrontation with pro-Tibetan protesters during the Olympics, Chinese authorities [...]
Protesters rappel down Chinese TV station’s wall, hang banner
August 16, 2008
Los Angeles Times
6:35 PM, August 16, 2008
In one of the most brazen examples of “unsanctioned” protests in Beijing to date during the Olympic games, two pro-Tibet demonstrators lowered themselves down the side of a China Central Television wall and unfurled a “Free Tibet” banner on Friday.
Draped in Tibetan flags, Nicole Rycroft, a [...]
Protest on 12th Avenue Takes Aim at Beijing
August 16, 2008
New York Times
August 16, 2008
About New York
By JIM DWYER
Late one night last week, five people stepped quickly down the western end of 42nd Street and over to the concrete island that divides the uptown and downtown traffic along 12th Avenue. One man carried a gas generator and gas can, listing slightly against the weight. Another [...]
Olympics: IOC under fire for removal of protest video
August 15, 2008
The Guardian (UK), By Matt Scott
A Free Tibet video on YouTube was taken down under the International Olympic Committee’s intellectual-property deal with the internet site.
The video features a protest last Thursday night in which demonstrators are holding a vigil by candlelight during which they projected on to the wall of the Chinese consular building in [...]
‘I Won’t Regret to Die’ - Tibetans Speak Out on Film at Their Own Risk
August 15, 2008
ABC News
By STEPHANIE SY, MARGARET ARO and SARAH NETTER
Aug. 15, 2008
As the Olympic flame flickers atop the Bird’s Nest, foreigners with human rights torches of their own have chosen this moment to stage brazen protests.
Two Tibetan women sit together in Lhasa. (ABC News)
Pro-Tibetan activists have entered China on tourist visas, knowing that [...]
Olympics protester returns to UK
August 15, 2008
BBC
Page last updated at 18:15 GMT, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:15 UK
The banner was unfurled on a building next to an Olympic promotion
A Briton thrown out of China after unfurling a pro-Tibet banner in Beijing has returned to the UK.
Philip Kirk, 24, of St Albans, Herts, said he was “happy” to be [...]
