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【原文标题】：Canadian protester detained in Beijing, says pro-Tibet group
【翻译标题】：一位表示支持西藏组织的加拿大人在北京被拘留
【原文地址】：http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=fa359eab-30db-404e-8601-2900fcf702c6
【日期】：2008年8月9日
【原文】：
Canadian protester detained in Beijing, says pro-Tibet group
Tobin Dalrymple and Randy Newell, Canwest News ServicePublished: Saturday, August 09, 2008
BEIJING - A pro-Tibet demonstration in Tiananmen Square ended Saturday when Chinese police detained a Canadian student and four others.
Chris Schwartz, a 24-year-old student from Concordia University in Montreal was led away by police about 10 minutes after the protest began.
Three Americans and a German were also detained.
 Chinese security forces detain two of three foreign protestors as they stage a protest and open Tibetan flags an hour before the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in Beijing on Friday. On Saturday, pro-Tibet groups reported two other demonstrations in China that had lead to the detainments of several other activists, including a 24-year-old Canadian.HO/AFP/Getty Images
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Schwartz was narrating a theatrical street protest as the four others draped themselves in Tibetan national flags and staged a mock "die in," said Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet.
"The Chinese government is seeking to cover up its ugly occupation of Tibet with the bright lights of the Olympics," said Matt Whitticase of the Free Tibet Campaign. "Our action at Tiananmen Square today highlights the determination of Tibetans and people of conscience that no amount of repression from the Chinese government will extinguish the desire of Tibetans for freedom and to speak out against China's worsening abuses in Tibet."
Officials in plain clothes lead the protesters away and brought them inside a building near the square - they had not been seen since, said Tethong in a telephone interview Saturday morning. Reporters and others followed the group to the building, but later dispersed after "undercover police" started to take pictures of the group outside, said Tethong.
The incident comes a day after the Olympic Games officially began in the Chinese capital. In the lead-up to the Games, concerns were voiced over China's handling of human rights protests and freedom of expression.
Calls made to the Canadian Embassy in Beijing were not immediately returned, but the embassy has been notified of the Canadian's arrest, said Tethong.
The demonstration was organized by two pro-Tibet advocacy groups - the New York City-based Students for a Free Tibet, and the U.K.-based Free Tibet Campaign. Both are calling for an end of what they say is a Chinese-government occupation of Tibet.
The other four detained are David Demes, 21, from Germany, Evan Silverman, 31, Diane Gatterdam, 55, and Joan Roney, 39, from the United States.
Another pro-Tibet demonstrator in a similar event was detained the same day.
Christina Chan tried to unveil a Tibetan flag during the first day of competition, but was promptly removed by officials from an equestrian event, according to a BBC report.
She had hidden the Tibetan flag beneath a Canadian flag.
When asked to leave, she refused to do so, and was later removed from the arena with a second protester, the news agency reported.
China bans the Tibetan flag from the events under rules which prevent the display of flags of countries not competing in the Games.
Many Tibetans insist they were an independent nation when communist troops invaded in 1950 but Beijing says the region has been part of its territory for hundreds of years.
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