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China Detains Americans Protesting Over Tibet

AP photographers also roughed up

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 22, 2008 8:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – Six Americans protesting China's rule over Tibet have been given 10-day detentions, in a rare instance of such punishments being meted out to visitors, the New York Times reports. Such extrajudicial detentions are common for Chinese dissidents, but foreigners at the Olympics have until now... Read full story »

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