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Olympic protest parks to be set aside

CHINA will set aside several parks in Beijing as zones for government-approved protests and rallies during next month's Olympic Games, a senior security official with the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee said... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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