Wall Street Journal “Activists Turn Up Heat on Beijing Olympics”

Now that’s what I call an effective banner!

The Olympic torch is increasingly lighting up political controversy for China.

Today, the host of the 2008 Summer Games plans to reveal the route of the torch relay that will carry the Olympic flame into Beijing. But in what may be a prelude of things to come, four people were detained on Mount Everest yesterday for protesting a proposal to carry the flame up the world’s tallest mountain, on the border with politically sensitive Tibet.

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Meanwhile, the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet began their Olympic effort a week ago with a campaign sending thousands of emails to the IOC. The group says that yesterday, it erected a banner at an Everest base camp that read “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008,� echoing the official Beijing Olympic slogan.

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