Vancouver's Nicole Rycroft Detained in Beijing for Draping Free Tibet Banner Over Billboard

Nicole Rycroft and another activist representing Students for a Free Tibet are pictured here earlier today in Bejing on top of a billboard reading: Beijing 2008. Rycroft and the other activist unfurled a banner that said: "Free Tibet." It remained in place for a half an hour, before authorities removed it and arrested the activists, Mel Raoul, a member of Students for a Free Tibet said tonight. Rycroft is currently being detained.

Before being arrested, Rycroft explained in an email to friends why she was risking arrest: Read the rest of this story on The Vancouver Observer.