Chinese PM met by (some) protesters, one still held by police

The Prime Minister arrived at the Chemistry Buildings just after 4, and he was greeted both by 30-40 chinese people and a small group of protestors, some from the Oxford University Tibet Society. A banner said "1000 000 million dead tibetans are too many - free tenzin delek rinpoche", and leaflets saying "shame on china" were handed out (although not received very happily by the chinese people present). Tenzin Delek Rinpoche is a tibetan teacher and lama who is being held as a political prisoner, and without any fair trial he is about to be executed. (more info on www.tibet.org) The protestors aimed to raise awareness of Tenzin Delek particularly, as a part of international campaigns to stop the execution and give him a fair trial, but also on human rights abuses in China in general.

There was quite a lot of police, and they were holding people back as the cars drove in. One man managed to get out into the road before the police jumped on him, handcuffed him and carried him away. There was some disruption caused by this, and the media there were taking pictures and interviewed people afterwards. He is still being held by the police in St.Aldates - we are waiting there now with a support group.

The Chinese PM was in the building for about 20 minutes, and as they came out the police were obviously careful as to not letting anyone getting near the road. The PM and his company were later seen at Christ Church, so we went there with the banner as well.

This was such an amazing opportunity for direct action, but since people did not know until some hours before there were few protestors and no planning. sad. but still, we did manage to raise the issue, talk to the chinese students, wave a banner at the PM and cause some disruption (esp. thanx to our **HERO** now sitting being bored in St. Aldates police station...