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This time next year the Beijing Olympics will be getting underway, though not if a lot of lobby groups have their way. The one year to go marker has produced a range of reactions, reports and protests against the repressive ways of the Chinese. The worldwide free Tibet movement is worried that China is planning to use the Games as a way of legitimising their long running occupation of Tibet. They say Tibetan imagery features prominently in a lot of the Olympic advertising. Yesterday six protestors from the UK , the US and Canada propelled themselves off the Great Wall of China unfurling a banner saying One World, One Dream, Free Tibet – and they were promptly arrested by Chinese authorities. Kate Woznow from Students for Free Tibet is in Hong Kong waiting for news of her fellow activists.

 

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