Beijing Sees Protests Over Tibet And Abortion

International Herald Tribune
BEIJING -- Four Western protesters were held after unfurling Tibetan independence banners in Beijing on Wednesday, and three Americans tested Olympic security measures by using central Tiananmen Square to decry abortion. Patrick Mahoney, Brandi Swindell and Michael McMonagle shouted against Chinese population control measures that sometimes impose forced abortions on women who violate the rule, and held up a banner reading "Jesus Christ is King." "End the brutality," one yelled on the square, the city's symbolic heart. "To those who are forced to go through forced abortions and have no voice, we are your voice." The police hustled them off the square and questioned them on a nearby bench. Then, unusually for this security-heavy country, the three were allowed to leave. One of the protesters, Swindell from Boise, Idaho, said that she and her fellow protesters intended to speak out again, something security forces are unlikely to allow.
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Posted by Editor at August 6, 2008 11:01 AM