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Press freedom group says it disrupted Olympic torch ceremony	24.3.2008	Earth Times
Paris - The Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders said that three of its members, including its head, had disrupted the Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in Greece. Three Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secreta...
In China, Rights Activists Use Olympics to Push for Reforms	24.3.2008	Washington Post: Nation
BEIJING, March 24 -- Demonstrators denouncing China's record on human rights breached strict security in Ancient Olympia on Monday and disrupted a torch-lighting ceremony that launched the Olympic flame's long journey to Beijing.
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Protestors disrupt Olympic torch ceremony	24.3.2008	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
The flame for the Beijing Olympics was lit Monday, and three members of the Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders were detained after running onto the stadium field.
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Rogge in 'Silent Diplomacy' With China	24.3.2008	Chicago Tribune: Nation
IOC president Jacques Rogge said Monday he is engaged in "silent diplomacy" with China on Tibet and other human rights issues in advance of the Beijing ...
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Olympic flame lit in ancient Olympia amid protests - Summary	24.3.2008	Earth Times
Athens - The Beijing 2008 Olympic torch was lit by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Monday, amid protests by pro-Tibet demonstrators who tried to disrupt the event. Despite an overcast sky at the ancient archaeological site, a high priestess, pla...
Greeks Light Beijing Olympics Flame	24.3.2008	AP Top News
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) -- Three men from a free-press group ran onto the field of the stadium in Ancient Olympia during Monday's flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions in the wake of China's crackdown in Tibet....
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Greeks light flame for Beijing Olympics amid tensions over Tibet	24.3.2008	Star Tribune: World

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Editorial: Speak Out on Tibet	24.3.2008	NY Times: Editorials
China’s authoritarianism is backfiring, fueling the resentment that exploded in Lhasa and radicalizing Tibetans.
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IOC president says he is in dialog with China on Tibet	24.3.2008	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, said Monday he is engaged in "silent diplomacy" with China on Tibet and other human rights issues in advance of the Beijing Olympics.
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Chinese activist gets 5 years in prison	24.3.2008	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
A court official says a Chinese activist who called for human rights ahead of the Olympics has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Olympic flame lit in ancient Olympia amid protests - Update	24.3.2008	Earth Times
Athens - The Beijing 2008 Olympic torch was lit by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Monday, amid protests by pro-Tibet demonstrators who tried to disrupt the event. Despite an overcast sky at the ancient archaeological site, a high priestess, pla...
China jails man who urged rights over Olympics	24.3.2008	Boston Globe: Latest
Chinese dissident Yang Chunlin, who called for human rights to take precedence over the Olympic Games, has been sentenced to five years in jail on charges of inciting subversion, his family and lawyer said on Monday.
China rights activist to go to prison	24.3.2008	Boston Globe: Latest
A court official says a Chinese activist who called for human rights ahead of the Olympics has been sentenced to five years in prison.
If city's cut off in the next big quake...	24.3.2008	SFGate: Op-Ed
Editor - Thanks for your earthquake update ("The next big one: worse than '06?" March 21). One question that wasn't addressed: What happens when San Francisco is isolated by the collapse of the old span of the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate approaches, a few... ...
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Emotional claims and realpolitik in Tibet	24.3.2008	The Guardian -- World Latest
Letters: Timothy Garton Ash (Free countries must defy Chinese blackmail and greet the Dalai Lama, March 20) calls it both 'statecraft and moral' for Europe to respond differently to the violent repression of Buddhist monks by China than by Burma
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My Telegram to the Chinese Communists (and Three Cheers for Speaker Pelosi!)	24.3.2008	Red State
Promoted from diaries - and, a note to the unworthy successors to the Sons of Heaven? Please be advised that even when we of the United States of America require a foreign opinion on any holder of the office of Speaker of the House - a title that predates your own regime by several generations - it will be some time before we work our way down to nation-states that have yet to see their first century, let alone their first successful one. And even then, we will probably first inquire of the Republic of China. - Moe Lane [Hat tip to Academic Elephant for alerting us all to this in "RedHot".] While the Chinese violently choke Tibet - consistent with the Chinese policy of the last 60 years - Speaker Pelosi visited the headquarters of the ...
Chinese News Agency Pounds Pelosi's Hypocrisy and Double Standards	24.3.2008	NewsBusters
It should go without saying that I by no means support China's recent position on Tibet. However, it is nonetheless delicious to read an international opinion piece depicting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as a " muckraker of her own hypocrisy " whose " double standards reveal her motives and those of her kind " that " [refuse] to check their facts and find out the truth " about issues before expressing " indignation [that] is reserved for those occasions when their interests are best served ." Coincidentally, if you exchanged all references to Tibet in this piece with virtually any major issue facing our nation today, the assertions would be dead on target concerning the Speaker's modus ...
China blasts Dalai Lama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over Tibet as it tries to halt PR disaster	24.3.2008	Star Tribune: World

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If city's cut off in the next big quake...	23.3.2008	SFGate: Op-Ed
Editor - Thanks for your earthquake update ("The next big one: worse than '06?" March 21). One question that wasn't addressed: What happens when San Francisco is isolated by the collapse of the old span of the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate approaches, a few... ...
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China Lashes Out at Crackdown Critics	23.3.2008	Truthout.com
Cara Anna, writing for The Associated Press, reports, "China lashed out Sunday at critics of its crackdown on Tibetan protesters, describing US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as 'habitually bad tempered' while claiming the Western media serve those who want to smear the communist country." And, Brian Krebs reports for The Washington Post, "Human rights and pro-democracy groups sympathetic to anti-China demonstrators in Tibet are being targeted by sophisticated cyber attacks designed to disrupt their work and steal information on their members and activities."
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