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Philip Kirk, 24, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, and an Australian-Canadian, hung the banner - which bore the slogan in English and Chinese - on the new headquarters of the Chinese state broadcaster in Beijing.

They were detained by the Chinese authorities along with three other protesters who watched as they climbed the building to make the demonstration.

Han Shan, Olympics campaign co-ordinator for the campaign group Students for a Free Tibet, said he feared the protestors would be mistreated while in custody.

"We are concerned for them, and we wait with bated breath until we know they are safe," he said.

"Some (other) protesters have been roughed up - people have been threatened, assaulted, punched and kicked. Clearly we are striking a nerve, but our protest is not with the Chinese police in Beijing but the hardline leadership which has refused to listen to reasoned arguments about Tibet."

The demonstration is the latest in a series of protests in Beijing over alleged human rights abuses by the Chinese in Tibet.

Last week two British Free Tibet campaigners, Iain Thom, 24, from Edinburgh, and Lucy Fairbrother, 23, were deported after unfurling a 140-square-foot banner reading "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet" in Beijing.

Mr Shan said he expected the protesters to be deported from China within 24 hours.

Mr Kirk abseiled down the building's glass facade with fellow protester Nicole Rycroft, 41, and hung their banner over a huge "Beijing 2008" billboard, according to Students for a Free Tibet. The group was arrested about half an hour after the climbers were first spotted by security officials.