Posted AT 10:03 PM EDT on 07/08/07
Canadian protesters held in China
VANCOUVER — Intent on shining an international spotlight on China's human-rights record as it begins a year-long countdown to the 2008 Olympics, two Vancouver activists unfurled a large pro-Tibet banner on the famous Great Wall Tuesday and were promptly arrested.
Melanie Raoul, 25, and Sam Price, 32, had rappelled down the side of the Great Wall of China to display a banner that read "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008.
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