Jonathan Haynes reports in the Guardian:
Five people have been detained by police at the Olympics games in Beijing today after unfurling a banner in protest at China’s human rights record in Tibet.
Briton Philip Kirk, 24, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, and Australian-Canadian Nicole Rycroft, 41, climbed the distinctive China Central Television building to unfurl the banner.
Han Shan, Olympics campaign coordinator for campaign group Students for Free Tibet, said the banner read “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese.
Three other protesters were also detained as they watched the climbers in action. Shan named the three as Americans Bianca Bockman, 27, from Hoboken, New Jersey, Sam Maron, 22, from New York and Kelly Osbourne and said were acting as support and to ensure the safety of the climbers.
The pair abseiled down the building’s glass facade and hung their banner over an Olympics billboard with the slogan “Beijing 2008” at 5.45am local time.
Once again, Students for a Free Tibet is taking credit for the stunt.
