Report by Amarnath Dinesh Roy
Co-ordination: Adolf Washington

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The land of Gandhi welcomes the Torch of Freedom

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by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com)

Rabbi David Druckman, the Chief Rabbi of the northern city of Kiryat Motzkin and an outspoken opponent of Land of Israel withdrawals, says Jews must take the lead in condemning China for its murder of prisoners of conscience in order to harvest their organs.

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Boston, MA

Date/Time: Sunday, March 30, 2008, 8:00 am - 4:00pm
Location: Torch Marathon: Start- Hopkinton, MA, at Hopkinton Common, end at Boston Common
Event: Torch marathon - Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA. 27-mile torch relay with Iron Man marathoner & relay runners carrying torch on Route 135 & Route 16 to Boston Common.
Location: Public Torch walk on Boston Common
Location: Public Torch rally, Parkman Bandstand at the Boston Common, across from 170 Tremont St, Boston, MA
Event: Welcome the arrival of the global Human Rights Torch Relay to United States.

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JAMES CHRISTIE/The Globe and Mail

January 25, 2008

The Canadian Olympic Committee will not muzzle athletes on the topics of China’s human-rights record and politics at the Beijing Olympics in August.

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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
January 24, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist

The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation.

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Friday January 25, 2008
Matt Scott
Guardian

Britain’s Olympic sailing team have been targeted by the Chinese secret police for conducting “illegal meteorological surveys” at the 2008 Games’ venue, Qingdao. The Royal Yachting Association, whose teams have been more successful than any other sports at the past two Olympics, set up a weather station in Qingdao to analyse the conditions that will influence August’s races. But towards the end of 2006 the weather station, which cost £8,000, was confiscated by the Chinese authorities and has not been returned.

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1/24/2008
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

BEIJING (AP) In a blast of harsh rhetoric, China lashed out Thursday at the Dalai Lama and critics of Beijing’s support for Sudan, saying attempts to link political issues to the Beijing Summer Olympics betrayed the spirit of the games.

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1/24/2008
BEIJING (AFP)

Chinese police detained more than 20 people after “scores” of protesters blocked a major Beijing road in a rally against a power station being built for the Olympic Games, state press said Thursday.

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