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In photos: 'San Francisco Olympic Torch Protests'

By M&C News Apr 9, 2008, 22:32 GMT

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Police pass pro-China spectators prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Police pass pro-China spectators prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco, USA, on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco, USA, on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

epa Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

epa Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco, USA, on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco, USA, on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco, USA, on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators prevent a bus from moving in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco, USA, on 09 April 2008. It was thought that the bus was carrying the Olympic torch. Dozens were nearly injured when the bus continued to pull forward. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against Chinas treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torchs progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON

Demonstrators shout slogans in protest against China's treatment of Tibet prior to the unveiling of the Olympic torch along the wharf in San Francisco on 09 April 2008. Demonstrations which followed the torch in France and the UK disrupted the torch's progress and San Francisco officials increased security to prevent violence. EPA/SEAN MASTERSON



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Free Tibet? Ill take it!Apr 10th, 2008 - 02:56:52

boycott china because they are an oppressive, soul killing, totalitarian regime.

Boycott the Olympics because they are boring.

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Yes, olympic torch in tibetApr 10th, 2008 - 04:02:33

First, my thanks to the SFPD for keeping order. Those peaceful F T people constantly want to attack chinese bystander celebrating the moment. The relay in SF is overall successful. IOC should not change the relay route, after argentina, australia will be the last bump on the route to beijing. I am pretty sure our african, arab, vietnamese, and korean brothers receive the torch warmly.

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RickApr 10th, 2008 - 05:45:56

Over the last 60 years over 1.2 million Tibetans have been massacred in cold blood by the Chinese military. Why has the world remained silent? Why?

China's human rights abuses are 'staggering': the detention of hundreds of thousands of people, including political activists, for 'reeducation' programs, and forced labor camps; and the liberal use of the death penalty in China -- including for political prisoners -- which makes China the site of 8 of every 10 government administered executions carried out in the world!

It is clear that the Communists can't be trusted at all and they have a bag full of tricks to fool not only Tibetans but the people of China with a state-controlled press. The solution is a free Tibet. There is no doubt that a sovereign Tibet would be a savior state not only for Tibetans but for all ethnic groups of China who have nowhere to go if they disagree with the CCP. A free Tibet would be such a free democratic heaven and haven.

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I agree in total comrade!Apr 11th, 2008 - 01:44:27

'Those peaceful F T people constantly want to attack chinese bystander celebrating the moment. The relay in SF is overall successful. IOC should not change the relay route, after argentina, australia will be the last bump on the route to beijing.'

Thank for kindly words brother chi-com, we fooling dumb westerners goodley with our impartial words of encouragements in yankee imperialist pig-dog vernacular. One day our beloved government will allow us to view western websites without censorship or re-education, until then it is back to spreading led paint on toys at blessed factory.

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Remember Tiananmen SquareApr 11th, 2008 - 01:47:14

'The relay in SF is overall successful. IOC should not change the relay route, after argentina, australia will be the last bump on the route to beijing. '


The last bump in the road to Beijing was a protester that the Chi-com tanks rolled over.

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worldthrulensApr 18th, 2008 - 06:21:03

These are such one-sided images. If you were really there, you should have see and snapshot huge numbers of Olypic supporters which waving red flags. There a only handful of Tibet supportor, whom are real minorities. Most people joy support sports and Olympics!

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anon.Apr 19th, 2008 - 13:13:24

China is one of the world's worst human rights offenders. Let them carry THAT torch of shame. Down with the PRC , Free Tibet!!!

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