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China deported Vancouver woman, other pro-Tibet protesters: student group

China has deported five protesters - including a Vancouver woman - who hung a Free Tibet banner in front of the state television's new headquarters in Beijing on Friday, Students for a Free Tibet Canada say. ...full story at cbcnews

from cbcnews on Fri, Aug 15 2008

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15 Aug 08 visit FREE TIBET Beijing Olympics Billboard Banner - August 15, 2  »  YouTube videoPro-Tibet activists rapelled from the top of a large Olympic billboard and unfurled a 375 square foot/115 square meter banner in front of Chinese state television's new headquarters in Beijing early this morning.
06 Aug 08 visit The Protest Games Begin  »  China Journal A pro-Tibet banner was hung on a pole close to the Bird’s Nest stadium (Photo courtesy of Students for a Free Tibet) With two and a half days til the opening ceremonies, things are heating up on the activist front. This morning, we got news that...
10 Aug 08 visit China: Citizen reporter to be deported  »  Global Voices The day after live-vlogging the rare phenomenon that is a loud Free Tibet protest in the middle of Tiananmen Square, Noel ‘noneck' Hidalgo has just tweeted that he is to be deported. Guess he wasn't using Tor.
06 Aug 08 visit Foreigners taken away by police for displaying 'Free Tibet' banner near Olympic venue  »  Shanghai Daily FOUR British nationals, three men and one woman, were taken away by Beijing police this morning for displaying "Free Tibet" banners, the police authority said. The four gathered at around 5:47 in the morning at...
19 Jun 08 visit China: New website for a free Tibet  »  Global Voices “With the start of the Beijing Olympics less than 50 days away,” writes cold mtn at the Tibet Will Be Free blog, Students for a Free Tibet is stepping up its Olympic campaign efforts with a new website. Check out their new strategy and video...
13 Apr 08 visit China: Fallout from the Free Tibet protests  »  Global Voices Anti-China protests this week sent nationalist sentiment in China up to a boiling roar. So when one young woman studying in the US was "caught" participating in a Free Tibet protest, hundreds of raging netizens hurled every insult imaginable her way.

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