{"article":{"id":219855,"heading":"Tortured US activists return home from China","author":"Tristan","created":"2008-08-26 17:27:47","modified":"2008-08-26 20:01:46","last_modified":"Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:01:46","article":"

The detainees said outside New York City Hall on Monday that they were held in cells and allowed to leave only for interrogations.

Some were activists and artists who demonstrated against China's occupation of Tibet. Others were bloggers photographing those events. They were sent home late Sunday during the closing ceremony.

But they said their experience was nothing like what Tibetans endure, and they vowed to keep protesting their cause. <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":" Eight Americans jailed by the Chinese for protesting during the Olympics say they were interrogated for hours, deprived of sleep and accused of having ties to the U.S. government","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/08\/219855.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":219891,"heading":"Ties to the U.S. government","article":"oh you mean like CIA provocateurs?\r\nahem....\r\nCan we all see some more background? Like who where why and wow?\r\nI thought the Spanish team showed the context of these reports.\r\nWe have enough trouble without pissing the Chinese off to further hidden agendas.","author":"R U CIA?","parent_id":219855,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-08-26 20:08:16","modified":"2008-08-26 20:08:16","fileurl":""}]}