Posted on 08/06/2008 12:27:26 PM PDT by Candor7
Two Americans and two British nationals have been ordered to leave China “within a prescribed time limit” after displaying “Free Tibet” banners near an Olympic venue in Beijing on Wednesday, local police said.
Two are expected to leave on Wednesday night and the other two on Thursday.
“They disrupted public order and violated Chinese laws. Their period of stay in the country will hereby be cut short according to the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Control of the Entry and Exit of Aliens,” the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said in a statement issued late on Wednesday.
The four, three men and one woman, had entered China on tourist visas.
They gathered at about 5:47 am at the Beichen Overpass near the National Stadium, or Bird’s Nest, in Chaoyang District in northeast Beijing.
Two of the men climbed up two electricity poles and hung the banners.
One banner bore large black letters declaring “One World One Dream Free Tibet,” while the other said: “Tibet will be free” in English and “Free Tibet” in Chinese.
Local police rushed to the scene 12 minutes later and took them away.
China will ban those countries, one of these days, that don’t let them win at the games. It will be deemed as against the Peoples Law. The ACLU must have an office over there.
You read this yet?
Lets hope they get clear of China unscathed.
One up for the "A" team!
Why can’t everybody just get along. That’s what the Olympics are all about. See history 1968.
I bet the PRC doesn't have many problems with IA's.
I dunno what they do these days, but they used to shoot wet backs, coming and going, off Hong Kong.
Perhaps folks will finally realize that the Olympics in China=one of the biggest mistakes of all time.
AGREED!!!
No free speech in repressive communist regimes.
No there isn’t & I don’t think we should be in China at all. Nasty place full of germs & they eat dogs too. I could go on & on about how I feel about China but you already are quite aware of it lol. No watching the games for this family, we boycott China !
Great to see some brave westerners and Americans stand up in a country like that. I wonder if they will beat them to send a message before they are put on a plane?
I just hope someone does it from the Victory Stand during the Games.
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