EIGHT FREE TIBET ACTIVISTS DETAINED BY CHINA FREED

China has released and deported the 'Great Wall Six' activists along with SFT Exec Director Lhadon Tethong and her traveling partner Paul Golding

As the one-year countdown celebrations for the 2008 Olympics came to a close in Beijing, eight Tibetan independence activists were deported to Hong Kong. Six of the activists had been arrested early on August 7th for unfurling a large protest banner on the Great Wall of China. The two others were Lhadon Tethong and UK Tibet activist Paul Golding, who were detained by Chinese police in Beijing at approximately 2pm Beijing time on August 8th. The eight were deported from China and put on a plane to Hong Kong, where they arrived at approximately 3am local time.

>> Read SFT's press release here >>
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