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ITN - 09.04.2008 07:26
Olympic torch protests hit San Francisco

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Pro-Tibet campaigners have marched through San Francisco ahead of the controversial Olympic torch relay.

Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Daryl Hannah were among the protestors who gathered before the flame is carried through the city during its only US stop.

They were among several hundred people demonstrating against China's crackdown in Tibet. The protests followed chaotic scenes during torch processions in London and Paris.

Buddhist monks and their supporters took part in what they described as a "Tibetan Freedom March". The marchers carried a "Tibet Freedom Torch" as a symbolic alternative to the official Olympic flame.

Protesters chanted "Free Tibet" and "Stop the Killing" as they marched through downtown San Francisco.

Police were out in large numbers and escorted the marchers as they gathered at the Chinese Consulate building in San Francisco where they demonstrated loudly.

The Olympic torch arrived in the city amid heavy security as International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the body's executive board would discuss on Friday whether to end the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay because of widespread protests.

The torch's global journey was supposed to highlight China's growing economic and political power.

But activists opposing China's human rights policies and a recent crackdown on Tibet have been protesting along the torch's 85,000-mile route since the start of the flame's odyssey from Ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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