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A small group of Tibet activists held a small demonstration at the entrance of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park not far from the Olympic stadium yesterday around 12.30pm. According to Austin Ramzy of TIME Magazine who was there on site, the demonstration was "hardly a blockbuster". He described the protest as follows:
The first attempt at unfurling a banner on the overpass was apparently a diversionary tactic, so the other demonstrators could barricade themselves behind a row of bikes at the park's entrance. It was a pretty small affair, the sort of thing one would ignore on the streets of New York or London. But because this is Beijing during the Games the police took it pretty seriously. I will give them credit for at least giving the demonstrators a brief window to say their piece, though possibly that was because the cops were just deciding what to do. After about 10 minutes the protesters were all bundled away.British journalist John Ray of Independent Television News was also detained during the kerfuffle and allegedly roughed up by Chinese policemen who accuse him of having unfurled a Tibetan flag, drawing a strong rebuke from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China who have now demanded for an apology from the Chinese authorities. In a statement released by the FCCC:
Police in Beijing roughed up and detained a British journalist after he covered a Free Tibet protest close to the city's main Olympic zone. John Ray of Independent Television News said he was pinned down by police, dragged along the floor and pushed into a police van. The authorities also confiscated his equipment, pulled off his shoes, filmed him and accused him of trying to unfurl a Tibetan flag, he said. He denies the accusation, saying he was only trying to cover the protest. "The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China is appalled by the detention and rough treatment of John Ray, an accredited journalist,less than a kilometer from the main Olympic stadium. We call on the authorities to return his equipment, apologise, and investigate potential illegal action or abuse of authority by police," said Jonathan Watts, president of the FCCC.Beijing, August 8, 2008
Related links
TIME: Olympic Protests: Low-Key Response
ITN: ITV News correspondent John Ray arrested in China (video)
The Guardian: British journalist detained by Beijing police after covering Free Tibet protest
WSJ Blogs: Journalists Protest After Correspondent’s Detention
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I always wonder why the trash never meet "Chinese protesters", while many Beijing boys are driving around searching for them with black paint? Now I suddenly realize the cowards are trying every bit NOT to meet with Chinese audiances except ready foreign media standing by who will offer the opportunitists a better photo opportunity. When thinking "if they met me", I have to reflect that I might do the same if I were paid too, for at least a return ticket.
But the best part is their holiness Dalair just refused to say Tibet is NOT part of China, which make all the clown an eunuch who cares for the things Emperor doesnt give a damn to at all. lol!
Best comment from eastman so far.
Seriously, eastman, please for everyone's sake, start proofreading your damn comments...you seem like a bright guy but I can't understand half the crap you write ... and now that we're on the subject, if you're gonna attack nanheyangrouchuan as usual ... put at least a little thought in your comebacks...it's like you're trying to embarrass yourself...come on buddy, you can do it..
You and your classmates, with or without visa. lol!
BBC video of same thing
Photographer in yellow shirt the police are trying to grab is Shanghai-based Reuters photog Nir Elias.
Look at all of you online lynching mobsters. It seems all the losers end up accusing other's typo or English. But who cares, if the message was delivered.
Jefe, sounds like you've got your long-dreamt visa to commie smoggie country, finally! Long March starts from first step, lol!
The only message delivered is that you are illiterate. Your English is so bad, your references are so obscure, your tone is so pointlessly angry, one can't make sense and doesn't want to make sense of what you are saying. Black paint? Lol! Best of all, you think it's poetic. LOL x infinity + 1.
Oh, poor eastman, everyone is ganging up on you. Please stop thinking you're such a martyr. It's pathetic. I actually agree with you sometimes, and clearly some of the other folks on this site do as well.
Ride on eastman, thats a good one!
My motto for the past 20 years: There is no such thing like all-black or all-white, there are only different shades of gray.
It's hilarious to watch leastman sputter and fume in some dark, dank net bar, spraying his screen with coke and fried rice. Just another model of China's shit youth.
And speaking of China, there is nothing worse.
To JEFE,
Ganging up on me? Look at your bunch of cowards like nanheyanrouchuan who always loves to smash mirror and Samuel Fadeyi who only dares to screw choristers and ALL SHIT-HEADS HERE who I have no time to remember the names. Such a pack of chickens, you called it as a “gang” and not feel like slap your face? I used to walk thru Harlem, you told me you had a gang like this, hahaha!
Let me embarrase you more, son: When ganging up somebody, one is already showing the reason behind being an attempt to get attention lacking from abusive families. All street gangs in gangland USA and your proud online “gang”, or even US-led gangster ally in Iraq are psycologically the same.
As to my English you mocked constantly: I come here for fun and for keeping my self-taught English afresh, for which I never feel ashamed of when it is enough to screw your “gang”. I only wish your Chinese could be as good as mine, which is my fourth language. Of course nobody will ever expect an American like you to learn it. When you call me “illiterateas”, you have proven true the saying that English is the only language Americans know. LOL!
To nanheyanrouchuan,
Go play with your three peanuts, if you cannot afford a cheapest made-in-China batman. Be sure to wash your four-finger hand first.
If you are not that naugty, I’ll adopt you, lol!
You know what? I have an idea. No need to deport those activists. Just put them on the train to Lhasa and let them live there since they love Tibet so much.
I'm still laughing at those self-absorbed idiots. They look like the professional protest crowd that always magically appear wherever there are enough TV cameras. Even the Dalai Lama disagrees with them. I think they have adopted Tibet like a tiny housepet.
the fights on these comment threads are bound to include the words "yo momma" soon.