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Three activists from Paris-based press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders, including its secretary-general Robert Ménard, managed to disrupt yesterday's Olympic flame ceremony by unfurling a banner showing the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs in the middle of a speech by Mr Liu Qi, president of the Beijing organising committee and Beijing Communist Party Secretary. The banner included the slogan, "'Boycott the country that tramples on human rights".