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Student throws shoe at IMF chief in Istanbul protest Thursday, October 1 02:18 pm Selcuk Gokoluk ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish student threw a shoe at International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Thursday as he made a speech to students in Istanbul ahead of the IMF's annual meeting. Security guards dragged the student away after he threw a white sports shoe and rushed towards the stage. The shoe landed at the feet of Strauss-Kahn. "Get out of the university, thief IMF," he shouted during Strauss-Kahn's speech at Istanbul's Bilgi University. A female student tried to unfurl a protest banner....

Cambridge student accused of throwing shoe at Chinese PM denies offence A Cambridge University student accused of throwing a shoe at the Chinese prime minister has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges over the protest. By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Last Updated: 4:18PM GMT 10 Feb 2009 A protester threw a shoe at the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao as he spoke at Cambridge University, marring an official visit to Britain. ; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1488655367/bctid9954683001 http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1139053637 In his first appearance at court, Martin Jahnke, who The Daily Telegraph revealed last week is a German pathology student at the forefront of research into...

China censors news of shoe-throwing attack on Wen Jiabao China has reacted angrily to the shoe-throwing attack on its prime minister in Cambridge and censored mention of it from the media. By Richard Spencer in Beijing and Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Last Updated: 4:52AM GMT 03 Feb 2009 The foreign ministry in Beijing issued a statement calling the behaviour of the man who threw a trainer at Wen Jiabao during a speech "despicable" and saying it expressed its "strong displeasure". But the statement did not describe exactly what happened and the incident has not been described in television, newspaper or...

February 2, 2009 Protester throws shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Ben Macintyre, Cambridge and Nico Hines A protester threw a shoe at Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, today as he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University. Mr Wen was coming to the last part of his address when a young Western-looking man with dark hair stood up, blew a whistle and shouted: “How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator? How can you listen to these lies?” The man, who appeared to be in his early twenties, then took off his heavy shoe and...