8th of August 2007 Parents of two Vancouverites said Tuesday evening they are very worried about the safety of the pair after the Chinese government seized six activists who were protesting on the Great Wall against the Chinese presence in Tibet. Two activists hang below a giant banner hung from the Great Wall of China Tuesday. The protesters unfurled a 42-square-metre banner reading "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008" in English and Chinese from the Great Wall. "Chinese authorities removed the activists after two hours; their current whereabouts are unknown," the group Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) said in a news release on Tuesday. The protesters include Sam Price and Melanie Raoul from Vancouver, along with one U.K resident and three from the U.S. "To simply not know anything about his whereabouts or what's happening to him at this moment is very disturbing and very unsettling," Caroline Price, the mother of 32-year-old Sam Price, told CBC News. Sam Price of Vancouver was one of six activists arrested Tuesday in China. Yvon Raoul, the father of 25-year-old Melanie Raoul, said his daughter was part of the protest organized by SFT. "Sometime we wish that she hadn't done it," Raoul told CBC News. "But at the same time one has to accept as a parent that your child is an independent being, and she has a mind of her own." A spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Department said on Tuesday they're still trying to determine the status of Price and Raoul and are waiting for answers from Chinese officials. "This morning, six amazing people of conscience risked their lives to defend the Tibetan people," SFT executive director Lhadon Tethong said in her blog from Beijing. The banner adds three words "Free Tibet 2008" to the official slogan of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Tuesday starts the one-year countdown to the Olympics. Melanie Raoul of Vancouver was one of six activists arrested in China Tuesday. Advocates who want Tibet freed from China say the Chin...
8th of August 2007 Parents of two Vancouverites said Tuesday evening they are very worried about th...
