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news.yahoo.com - 8/13/2008
Chinese police rough up British TV crew at Olympics - Yahoo! News
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BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police roughed up a British TV crew and stopped them covering a pro-Tibet protest, witnesses said, in the latest case of interference with media freedom at the Beijing Olympic Games . Uniformed police pounced on John Ray, China correspondent for Independent Television News (ITN), shortly after protesters unfurled a pro-Tibet banner near the main Olympic complex, ...

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British Journalist Roughed Up & Arrested For Covering "Free Tibet" Protest In Beijing (Video)
Gateway Pundit — British ITV News reporter John Ray was roughed up and arrested today in Beijing for covering a Free Tibet protest near the national stadium. ...

Chinese police rough up British TV crew at Olympics
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Ray, China correspondent for Independent Television News (ITN), shortly after protesters unfurled a pro-Tibet banner near the main Olympic complex, witnesses and the reporter said. His cameraman Ben England was also manhandled and prevented from filming the protest, they said. Pro-Tibetan independence group Students for a Free Tibet said two protesters who unfurled the banner were arrested while six other members of the group were also detained for protesting nearby... Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080813/wl_asia_afp/oly200... Still glad I am not watching this year. ...

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