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Chinese military police tries to grab a protest banner from a Falun Gong member Jason Loftus in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year Monday Feb. 11, 2002. Loftus, of Barrie, Ontario, was quickly detained, along with fellow protester Levi Browde, of New York, NY. The two were protesting persecution of members of the banned group in China. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)