Thursday, August 21, 2008

"At least half a dozen people have been detained by the [Chinese] authorities after they responded to a government announcement late last month designating venues in three city parks as 'protest zones' during the Olympics. So far, no demonstrations have taken place.

"According to Xinhua, the state news agency, 77 people submitted protest applications, none of which were approved."

-- Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, August 20, 2008.

1 comment:

Richard Mason said...

I read this New York Times article on my iPhone. When I got home I checked the website, but the article on the website had been rewritten... in particular, it didn't contain this quoted passage verbatim (although roughly the same information was there).

Lord knows what was in the print edition.