Media News - Thursday, August 07, 2008

Demonstrations to be held outside Chinese embassies

Reporters Without Borders is calling for demonstrations outside China’s embassies in London, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Washington and Stockholm on Friday, when the Olympic Games opening ceremony will be taking place in Beijing. Two demonstrations will be organised for today in Rome and Ottawa. A rally is also planned outside the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne. Reporters without Borders says the aim of these demonstrations is to call for the release of Chinese journalists and human rights activists who have been imprisoned, and for an end to the harassment of those who been placed under surveillance or forced to leave Beijing. The Chinese government has not kept the promises to improve respect for human rights that it made in 2001, it adds, when Beijing was chosen to host the 2008 Olympics. Reporters Without Borders is also organising a cyber-demonstration on 8 August here. Internet users all over the world will be able to come and protest outside a virtual version of Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, waving a placard with the slogan of their choice. (Reporters Without Borders)

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