{"id":22364,"date":"2008-08-01T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=22364"},"modified":"2008-08-01T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:23:13","slug":"nine-german-olympians-protest-chinese-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/08\/nine-german-olympians-protest-chinese-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine German Olympians Protest Chinese Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/08\/01\/sports\/EU-OLY-German-Protest.php\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nine German Olympians have posed with pictures of Chinese dissidents held up in front of their faces to protest the country&#8217;s politics.<\/p>\n<p>The nine responded to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/\">Suddeutsche Zeitung<\/a> magazine request sent out to 200 German athletes to pose for a spread headlined &#8220;We are all Chinese,&#8221; which was published Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The headline was a reference to the famous 1963 &#8220;Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)&#8221; line from then American President John F. Kennedy during a speech for freedom after the Berlin Wall was built.<\/p>\n<p>Sabine Spitz, a mountain biker, chose to hold up over her face a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/2307\/prmID\/172\">Yang Tongyan<\/a>, a writer sentenced to 12 years for demanding democratic change in China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Nine German Olympians have posed with pictures of Chinese dissidents held up in front of their faces to protest the country&#8217;s politics. The nine responded to a Suddeutsche Zeitung magazine request sent out to 200 German athletes to pose for a spread headlined &#8220;We are all Chinese,&#8221; which was published Friday. 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