Sunday, April 6, 2008

Police Detain Gay Rights Campaigner As Olympic Torch Is Paraded Through London

LONDON, April 6, 2008 – Peter Tatchell, the gay human rights campaigner, was detained by police this afternoon in London as the Olympic torch was controversially paraded through the capital on its way to Beijing. He was held briefly before being released with a warning.

Mr. Tatchell was protesting the arrest and imprisonment last week of Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, an Aids activist working in China’s gay community and beyond, who was convicted for ‘inciting subversion of state power’ by the Beijing Municipal No 1 Intermediate People’s Court and sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment.

It was in Oxford Street that Mr. Tatchell jumped in front of the slow-moving VIP bus accompanying the torch.

He jumped into the road carrying a placard: “Free Tibet; Free Hu Jia”.

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