Media monitor Reporters Without Borders said Friday at least 47 foreign pro-Tibetan activists have been expelled and 22 foreign journalists detained or manhandled by police or other authorities during the Beijing Olympics.
Among those detained were two American video bloggers sentenced to 10-day prison terms for “disrupting public order,” a statement from the group said. It said at least 50 Beijing-based human rights activists have been detained, harassed or forced to leave the capital.
The Paris-based group spearheaded protests calling for increased freedom of expression in China ahead of the Olympics.
The group’s leader, Robert Menard, said Chinese authorities’ pledges “about media freedom and the right to protest were an illusion.”
Beijing Public Security Bureau spokesman Wang Wenjie declined to comment, saying it did not have an overall figure of foreign activists deported and journalists detained during the Summer Games.
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