Activists freed after protest
TWO activists from Australia and the US and two journalists were detained briefly in China today after the unveiling of a banner in a Beijing park reading No Olympics for China until Tibet is Free, witnesses said.
IOC Will Listen To Groups Monitoring Human Rights
At the end of the Athens 2004 Games International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said the signs were there that Asia would be a strong force at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Tibet Campaigners Detained in Beijing for Olympics Protest
Just hours after the Olympic flag was handed from Athens to Beijing, two members of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) today unfurled a banner reading ‘No Olympic for China until Tibet is Free’
Police, protesting Tibetans clash
Activists from the International Tibet Support Network stage a sit-in after they scuffled with police officers as they displayed a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Police, protesting Tibetans clash
Activists from the International Tibet Support Network stage a sit-in after they scuffled with police officers as they displayed a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Police, protesting Tibetans clash
Activists from the International Tibet Support Network stage a sit-in after they scuffled with police officers as they displayed a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Police, protesting Tibetans clash
Activists from the International Tibet Support Network display a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (Ap Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Human rights shadow over Beijing games
At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic games last night Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, issued the traditional invitation to “the youth of the world” to reassemble in four years’ time.
Police, protesting Tibetans clash
Tibetan protesters and police briefly scuffled at the main Olympic stadium complex Sunday, just hours before organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games were to receive the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony.
‘Seeking truth from facts’ in Tibet
On our last night in Lhasa on a rare media visit here, some of us seek to find out how Tibetans feel about the Panchen Lama. The 14-year old boy was chosen by Beijing to one day replace the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader who fled in 1959.