Police detain five more Tibet activists at Tiananmen Square

Beijing - Chinese police detained five more Tibetan independence supporters at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sunday, after the latest in a series of protests in the Olympic host city. A video circulated by New York-based Students for a Free Tibet showed police arresting the protesters and dragging at least two of them into a shop on the edge of the square. One of the protesters unfurled a Tibetan flag and shouted "Free Tibet" outside the shop while another, identified as 21-year-old German Tibetan Padma-Dolma Fielitz, was dragged along the floor into the shop. "The whole thing lasted about 5 minutes," Sophia Conroy of Students for a Free Tibet told Deutsche... [read full story]