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News Source: Leader Post Online
| about 1 year ago
Sites for the Tibetan government-in-exile and Tibetan activist groups were unaccessible, as well as others deemed sensitive by China's communist rulers such as those linked to spiritual group Falungong and Chinese dissidents. The restrictions were...
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News Source: Phayul
| about 1 year ago
After the forceful protest near the Chinese Embassy for half an hour, all the members have been detained at the Chankyapuri Police Station. The members chained themselves to the pole near the embassy to prolong their protest. They raised slogans...
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News Source: Leader Post Online
| about 1 year ago
We hope the relevant countries will educate their nationals in respecting Chinese law when they come to China, in order to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future." A U.S. embassy spokeswoman told AFP earlier that the eight Americans...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 year ago
China released eight American protesters from jail and put them on a plane for Los Angeles on Sunday night as the Beijing Olympics closed, an advocacy group said. Top diplomats at the U.S. and British embassies earlier in the day had pressed for the...
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News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
They were deported (Sunday evening in Beijing) before the end of the closing ceremony," said Heather Reddick, an international operations director for the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet...Eight are Americans and they landed around noon...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Eight Americans arrested for planning or staging protests in Beijing were deported to the United States on Sunday, a U.S...A plainclothes security official, bottom, grabs a Tibetan flag from three pro-Tibet activists in Beijing Thursday.
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
British mother of two released after being held over 'free Tibet' protest in Beijing Last updated at 21:01pm on 24.08.08 Going home: Mandie McKeown will be making an earlier return to her Bristol home A British woman arrested during a pro-Tibet...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
state media (53 mins ago) The Beijing Olympics will leave China a more confident and open nation, the country's state-run media said. The morning after the Games ended with a spectacular send-off in the Bird's Nest stadium, the official People's...
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News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 year ago
Sunday afternoon that selecting Beijing as a host had been the “right choice” and that the event had been a bridge between China and the rest of the world. “The world has learned about China, and China has learned about the world,” Mr. Rogge...
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News Source: AFP
| about 1 year ago
China has deported eight Americans who were detained in Beijing last week after a wave of pro-Tibet protests coinciding with the Olympics, the US embassy here said Monday. "Chinese authorities informed us last night that the eight individuals,...