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Article: CHINESE POLICE ARREST ITN MAN ; [broken bar] Briton 'roughed up' as he covers Free Tibet demo

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August 13, 2008
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A BRITISH journalist told how he was "roughed up" and quizzed by Chinese police as he was arrested in Beijing today.

ITN's John Ray, 44, said he was knocked to the ground, thrown into a van and asked what his opinion on Tibet was after covering a demonstration.

He suffered cuts and bruises.

Ray was taken away as activists from Students for a Free Tibet handcuffed themselves to railings at the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, near the National Stadium.

Ray, ITN's Beijing correspondent, managed to speak on his mobile phone to a colleague, saying: "I have been roughed up. They dragged me, pulled me and knocked me to the ground. Now they are filming me." An exchange with the police officers could ...

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