U.S. boy arrested in Tiananmen Square for protesting
Published 9:33 pm Sunday, November 21, 2010
BEIJING — A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea into a peace park has been taken away by Chinese police after staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square.
Jonathan Lee unfurled a sign saying “peace treaty” and “nuclear free DMZ children’s peace forest” as he stood outside the Forbidden City on Monday.
A man presumed to be a plainclothes officer grabbed Lee’s sign less than a minute later and waved away journalists who had been contacted by Lee’s family ahead of time.
Lee and his mother were escorted away by police.
Lee made a rare visit to Pyongyang in August to propose his idea of a “children’s peace forest” in the demilitarized zone.
Lee is from Ridgeland, Mississippi.
