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Leaving… On A Jet Plane!

Bill Cammack — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:52:00 +0000

Just got word from Kenyatta Cheese that Brian Conley & Jeff Rae are on the way home from China:

“We just got word that Brian and friends are on a plane to Los Angeles, arriving Monday morning. He was released with 7 other US citizen detainees: Jeff Goldin, Tom Grant, Mike Liss, James Powderly, Jeff Rae, John Watterberg and Jeremy Wells.”

Read Kenyatta’s entire post in the comments of rocketboom.com/rb_08_aug_21/.

Previous posts on this subject:
Citizen Journalists detained in China
Brian Conley & Jeff Rae updates
Ten Days in a Chinese Jail
Brian & Jeff update

Good.

Please return your seats to the upright position…

We now return you to our regularly scheduled partying! :D

Brian & Jeff update

Bill Cammack — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:04:34 +0000

Sorry for the delay, to those of you that have asked me if there has been any more news about Brian Conley & Jeff Rae. Kenyatta Cheese posted this yesterday to www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_aug_21/comments:

“Around 5 am US Eastern Standard Time Brianâ€™s family received calls from the US Embassy in Beijing. An Embassy representative had visited Brian and the 5 other detainees, and we were assured that they were doing ok.

Brian had written messages to different family members and he seemed in good spirits. He seems to be coping well with the situation and is finding solace and distraction in speaking Arabic with another detainee!

All 6 men are being held with other international detainees, though not all together. They are in rooms of about 10 people each.

The Embassy expects they will be released and deported without incident at the end of their 10 day sentence, on August 30.”

Here’s a video by Rocketboom about the situation:

Rocketboom link: http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_aug_21/
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cBi6AuBQiw

Previous posts on this subject:
Citizen Journalists detained in China
Brian Conley & Jeff Rae updates
Ten Days in a Chinese Jail

Brian Conley & Jeff Rae updates

Bill Cammack — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:11:14 +0000

No word yet about Brian Conley & Jeff Rae, who were detained in Beijing approximately 60 hours ago. Nathan DeFreitas posted an update link on my previous post, “Citizen Journalists detained in China” which says: