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With the business struggling, Paige was forced to sell her car - but she refused to be beaten.

"But right now, there is no freedom in Tibet. No one wants to go back just to be beaten by the Chinese."

Piastri added: "The gap has always been close, and our advantage has been a little more on Sundays, but our picture of where we stand is that if we make mistakes we are going to be beaten and that's been true through the year."

I'd been detained at the start of the uprising that year, and several times afterwards; I witnessed men lined up to be beaten and heard screams of torture.

In another incident, the two girls told another victim to kiss their shoes or they would be "beaten up".