Four foreigners in China held for Tibet protest
BEIJING — Four foreign protesters displaying a "Free Tibet" banner were held by police today, state news media and an activist group said, as the Olympic torch made its way through the city.
The protesters unfurled Tibetan flags and banners declaring "One World, One Dream: Free Tibet" and "Tibet will be free," the group Students for a Free Tibet said in an e-mail.
One banner said "Free Tibet" in Chinese.
The agency said the three men and one woman were British, but the group said they came from Britain and the United States.
Meanwhile, China officially apologized for the police beating of two Japanese journalists in western China, and set new rules that require reporters to make appointments to do reports at Tiananmen Square.
The Japanese government and the Foreign Correspondents Club of China condemned the roughing up of the Japanese newsmen who were covering an attack by alleged Muslim separatists on police in Xinjiang province.
