What it’s like to be arrested by the Chinese government:

“The Chinese government was ruthlessly effective in quashing dissent during the Summer Olympics, but few noticed until a group of scruffy American activists were arrested, jailed, and deported for flying the Tibetan flag outside the Bird’s Nest stadium. In an exclusive interview, John Watterberg and Jeremy Wells describe their ordeal at the hands of a repressive regime. …
‘I realized that they, the interrogators, could not comprehend a student branch of an organization; that a group could act independently. We had to explain the concept of peaceful protest. They thought we were all part of a huge conspiracy to destroy the Chinese government.’”