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Mother-of-two Amanda 'Mandie' McKeown, 41, from Bristol, was arrested in Beijing on Thursday for taking photographs of three protesters as they unfurled a Free Tibet banner.

She arrived back at Heathrow Airport to be greeted by a cheering crowd that included friends, family, Buddhist monks and members of campaign group Students for a Free Tibet.

She said: "We were arrested and taken to a university for questioning. We were held for nearly 24-hours without any sleep and were interrogated for up to about eight hours.

"Then we were moved to a detention centre and before we were allowed any sleep we had another 12 hours of interrogation."

Ms McKeown said she was not given any legal reason for her arrest.

"The guys I was with were given the reason that it was illegal to undertake even a peaceful protest and to talk about the situation in Tibet," she said.

She said that the last few protests seem to have shaken the Chinese government.

"They changed their tack over the last two days," she said. "They seemed to have decided to really clamp down on protesters."

Her husband Dan Cary, 42, said: "I'm very relieved that Mandie is home. I wouldn't like to say that China has listened, only time will tell if they have."