英国好像是政府付，还给安家费？

Bay Area Tibet Activist Deported Back To U.S.

POSTED: 8:40 am PDT August 11, 2008
UPDATED: 4:57 pm PDT August 11, 2008
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Two Bay Area men are among nearly two dozen pro-Tibet protesters from Students for a Free Tibet who have been detained and deported from China since they started staging demonstrations just days before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a spokeswoman for the organization said Monday.

Jonathan Stribling-Uss, a 27-year-old Oakland man, was part of a group that staged a protest and displayed three Tibetan national flags near Beijing's National Stadium about an hour before the opening ceremony Friday.

Stribling-Uss was detained and held before he was deported from Beijing to New York City, where he arrived Saturday afternoon, according to Yangchen Lhamo, Students for a Free Tibet spokeswoman.

On Sunday, 35-year-old San Francisco resident Adam Zenko was one of five people who were detained after staging a protest, displaying a Tibetan flag and attempting to unveil a banner reading "Tibetans are dying for freedom."

"We got the banner out of the bag, held it up and immediately the banner was grabbed by undercover police," Zenko said. "We knew they were in the area and right on top of us."

He said he was punched and kicked and the group was taken into the nearest building for questioning. They were detained there for about an hour and a half and then driven around in a van for five to six hours before they were taken to the airport, Zenko said.

At the airport, they were interrogated again by officials who used the protesters' credit cards to purchase their departing flights, according to Zenko. He estimated each ticket cost about $2,300.

"We didn't even know where we were flying to until we were handed boarding passes at customs," he said.

Zenko was deported from Beijing to Los Angeles and is now back in San Francisco.

Lhamo said this afternoon that 23 members of Students for a Free Tibet, including 11 U.S. citizens, have been detained and deported since actions began in Beijing on Wednesday.

Students for a Free Tibet is a worldwide, chapter-based network that campaigns for "Tibetans' fundamental right to political freedom."