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News Source: Japan Today
| about 1 year ago
Embassy urges China to release American activists Sunday 24th August, 02:38 PM JST The U.S. Embassy in China said Sunday it has urged the Chinese government to immediately release eight Americans detained in Beijing after holding pro-Tibet activities...
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News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
In a statement, the US embassy said it was "disappointed" China had not used the Olympics "to demonstrate greater tolerance and openness". The authorities say the protesters will be freed by the end of the month. Before the Games, the authorities...
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News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
Randt Jr said Sunday that China should show respect for human rights and free speech and that US officials are "disappointed that China has not used the occasion of the Olympics to demonstrate greater tolerance and openness". China had said protests...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
The United States has pressed for the immediate release of eight Americans detained in Beijing for staging pro-free Tibet protests during the Beijing Olympics. Two were detained on Thursday after hanging a "Free Tibet" banner near an Olympic venue...
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News Source: GMA News
| about 1 year ago
Ambassador to China is pressing Chinese officials to immediately release eight Americans who were detained for holding pro-Tibet protests during the Olympics...Randt Jr. said in a statement Sunday that Beijing should demonstrate respect for human...
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News Source: KGO News
| about 1 year ago
On the eve of the Olympic closing ceremonies, protesters took to the streets of San Francisco again on Saturday. The group called "SF Team Tibet" held a peace rally at Union Square at noon. After the rally they marched to city hall, and then to the...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Olympics, there has been no lack of criticism of the decision to stage the Games in a Communist Party-ruled country or doubts about its ability to pull it off. In March, the suppression of riots in Tibet gave fresh ammunition to western critics of...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
We all know the Olympics have always been politically corrupt. We accept that countries use the Olympics for national vanity and glory. But when it comes around every four years, we fall in love with the spectacle...It always bemuses me how we talk...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Chinese police have sentenced at least 10 foreigners to 10 days of detention for protesting during the Olympic Games, an activist group and officials said Saturday. The most recent detainees included four protesters who were demonstrating against...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
The three, including one from Agence France-Presse (AFP), had their cameras confiscated but were later released after being questioned for nearly three hours, one of them said...Tibetans die, down the front of the adjacent building, the AFP...