阿波罗特稿：在报道"党媒造谣很疯很弱智 公然与全世界记者为敌"后，无国界记者（大陆一般翻译成“记者无疆界”）给阿波罗发来了新闻发布稿。
因为中文世界媒体还没有报道，阿波罗新闻网翻译后在中文媒体圈首发。
8月19日北京 鸟巢外的抗议
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2008年北京奥运会
两名美国公民记者(其中之一是Brian Conley)和其他四个人权活动家在北京被判处监禁10天。
无国界记者组织要求立即释放那六名已被中共警方以“扰乱公共秩序”罪判处在北京行政拘留10天的外国人 。警方并没有公布他们的国籍，但据信他们是8月19日在北京被拘捕的那两名美国记者和四名示威者。
两名美国记者是Jeff Rae 和 Brian Conley 。Brian Conley是著名的“活在巴格达”（ www.aliveinbaghdad.org ）视频博客的创始人。Conley的妻子告诉无国界记者组织说： “我几个小时前接到我丈夫发来的一个短信，说他在监狱中。从那以后我就再也没有他的消息。” Rae 和 Conley最近在北京一直跟踪报道由“自由西藏学生组织”发起的抗议活动，美国纽约艺术家James Powderly是其中一名抗议参与者。
四名支持西藏的外国人，包括一名藏裔德国人，两名美国人和一名英国人，在北京国家体育场附近展开西藏旗帜，高喊要求西藏自治之后被拘捕。“自由西藏学生组织”说，他们是自北京奥运会开幕以来被拘捕的第八组抗议人士。迄今为止，共有47名支持西藏人士在奥运期间被逮捕。
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Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières
22 August 2008
2008 Beijing Games
Two US citizen journalists, including Brian Conley, and four other activists get 10 days in Beijing prison
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of six foreigners who have been sentenced by the Chinese police to 10 days of administrative detention in Beijing for "disrupting public order." The police did not give their nationality but it is believed they are the two US citizen journalists and four demonstrators who were arrested in Beijing on 19 August.
The two citizens journalists are Jeff Rae and Brian Conley, the founder of the famous Alive in Baghdad (www.aliveinbaghdad.org) video blog. Conley's wife told Reporters Without Borders: "I got a text message from my husband a few hours ago saying he was in prison. I have had no news since then." Rae and Conley had been covering the protests staged in Beijing by Students for a Free Tibet, including the protest by New York artist James Powderly.
Four other foreign pro-Tibet activists - a German of Tibetan origin, two Americans and a Briton - were arrested near the national stadium in Beijing after unfurling a Tibetan flag and calling for Tibetan autonomy. Students for a Free Tibet said they were the eighth group to be arrested in Beijing since the start of the Olympic Games. In all, 47 pro-Tibet activists have so far been arrested during the games.
