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UK Tibet protester deported home

A British woman held in China following a Free Tibet protest is flying back to the UK. ...full story at BBC News

from BBC News on Mon, Aug 25 2008

see also:

14 Apr 08 visit Free Tibet (British TV) Documentary on Tibet Protest  »  YouTube videoFree Tibet (British TV) Documentary on Tibet Protest for Independent in Lhasa
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.
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.
20 Aug 08 visit A Protest Pre-Empted, Artist Detained  »  China Journal The group Students for a Free Tibet has been among the most active in organizing small, symbolic protest actions across Beijing during the Olympics, from hanging “Free Tibet” banners from lampposts near the Bird’s Nest stadium to staging...
13 Aug 08 visit Journalists Protest After Correspondent’s Detention  »  China Journal The Foreign Correspondents Club of China is demanding an apology from Chinese authorities, who they say roughed up and detained a British journalist after he covered a Free Tibet protest close to the main Olympic zone. According to a statement by the...
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...

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