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Pro-Tibet activists stage another protest in Beijing
BEIJING, Aug. 16 Kyodo - Pro-Tibetan independence activists staged another protest in Beijing on Friday, hanging a large ''Free Tibet'' banner outside the new state TV headquarters.
Two climbers, a man and a woman, hung the banner over high fencing andbillboards advertising the Olympic Games which surround the CCTV building in the center of the Chinese capital.
A statement from the organizers of the protest, U.S.-based Students for a Free Tibet, said the 115-square-meter banner was put in place at about 5:45 a.m. and left for about half an hour before the two activists, a Briton and anAustralian-Canadian citizen, were detained by police.
Three Americans helping with the protest, two men and a woman, were alsoarrested, the statement said.
A Japanese woman, Pema Yoko, was deported from China on Thursday after taking part in another protest earlier in the week organized by the same group inBeijing.
Sixteen people who have taken part in three protests organized by Students for a Free Tibet in Beijing over the past week to coincide with the Olympics havebeen thrown out of the country so far.
A brief report in the official Xinhua News Agency said the police have already ordered the five activists in the latest protest to curtail their stay andleave the country.
Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, said, ''Tibet supporters took action at CCTV today to broadcast a message of truth about the intensifying military crackdown in Tibet and the Tibetan people's undying resolve to regain their freedom.'' ''While the Chinese government has built a gleaming new building for its official mouthpiece and its public relations strategy has become more sophisticated, the propaganda it uses to maintain its iron-fisted control overTibet remains the same,'' she said.
The new CCTV building, which is due to open next year, is already one of the most famous buildings on Beijing's skyline, with some locals nicknaming it the ''Big Shorts'' because its two towers are joined at the top to form a giantangular arch.
The pro-Tibet protests come amid massive security in Beijing, with about 150,000 police and troops patrolling the streets and nearly 300,000 members of the public wearing red armbands stationed on virtually every street in the cityto watch for disturbances.
Three American religious activists were also deported last week after stagingtwo small protests in Tiananmen Square.
The Chinese government has repeatedly said it strongly opposes any attempt to politicize the Olympics and that rights groups are intent on trying to disruptthe Beijing Games.
==Kyodo
Two climbers, a man and a woman, hung the banner over high fencing andbillboards advertising the Olympic Games which surround the CCTV building in the center of the Chinese capital.
A statement from the organizers of the protest, U.S.-based Students for a Free Tibet, said the 115-square-meter banner was put in place at about 5:45 a.m. and left for about half an hour before the two activists, a Briton and anAustralian-Canadian citizen, were detained by police.
Three Americans helping with the protest, two men and a woman, were alsoarrested, the statement said.
A Japanese woman, Pema Yoko, was deported from China on Thursday after taking part in another protest earlier in the week organized by the same group inBeijing.
Sixteen people who have taken part in three protests organized by Students for a Free Tibet in Beijing over the past week to coincide with the Olympics havebeen thrown out of the country so far.
A brief report in the official Xinhua News Agency said the police have already ordered the five activists in the latest protest to curtail their stay andleave the country.
Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, said, ''Tibet supporters took action at CCTV today to broadcast a message of truth about the intensifying military crackdown in Tibet and the Tibetan people's undying resolve to regain their freedom.'' ''While the Chinese government has built a gleaming new building for its official mouthpiece and its public relations strategy has become more sophisticated, the propaganda it uses to maintain its iron-fisted control overTibet remains the same,'' she said.
The new CCTV building, which is due to open next year, is already one of the most famous buildings on Beijing's skyline, with some locals nicknaming it the ''Big Shorts'' because its two towers are joined at the top to form a giantangular arch.
The pro-Tibet protests come amid massive security in Beijing, with about 150,000 police and troops patrolling the streets and nearly 300,000 members of the public wearing red armbands stationed on virtually every street in the cityto watch for disturbances.
Three American religious activists were also deported last week after stagingtwo small protests in Tiananmen Square.
The Chinese government has repeatedly said it strongly opposes any attempt to politicize the Olympics and that rights groups are intent on trying to disruptthe Beijing Games.
==Kyodo
