Han-shan and Liam Phelan unfurl banner in the "Ethnic Minorities Park" at the Olympics site in Beijing, with journalists present. After displaying the banner for several minutes, they were detained by police; they were held and questioned for two days and then deported.



Associated Press: A Chinese security guard, right, attempts to stop Australian Liam Phelan, left and American Han Shan of New York from holding up a banner that reads 'No Olympics for China until Tibet is Free' and Olympic rings shaped like barbed wires from a Chinese style bridge at the Ethnic Minorities Park in Beijing, China, Monday, Aug. 30, 2004. The two were representing the International Tibet Support Network, a body of Tibet related non-government organisations with a political mandate aimed at ending human rights violations in Tibet. Beijing's Olympics in 2008 has become a target for many interest groups seeking for their voices to be heard. The two were later detained by Chinese police. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)



A stadium at the future Olympic site is visible in the background.



AFP: Two protesters display a banner saying 'No Olympics for China until Tibet is Free' from a bridge in Beijing. As the Olypmpic flame leaves Athens, the eyes of the sporting world are turning towards the Chinese capital.

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