Paris City Hall and athletes to highlight human rights during Olympic torch relay

: A streamer supporting human rights will be draped over City Of Light City Hallway when the Olympic torch relay go throughs through the Gallic working capital on Monday.

Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said City Hallway will expose the streamer because "Paris supports human rights all over the world."

Delanoe spoke Wednesday at the proclamation of the path for the torch relay, which will begin at the Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Tower.

David Douillet, a two-time golden medallist in judo, said torch bearers will have on badges as a "distinctive sign" celebrating free expression, without saying what will be written on them.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) promised to protest China's crackdown on presentations in Tibet. Henry Martin Robert Menard, the group's president, condemned People'S Republic Of China as "the greatest prison house in the world" and said his members would have on T-shirts during the relay with the five rings of the Olympic logotype depicted as handcuffs. Today in Sports

"(There is) a contradiction between the International Olympic Committee and human rights," said Menard, adding that not adequate have been done by France's Olympic Committee (CNOSF) to coerce the IOC over China.

"The Gallic Olympic Committee did not desire us to attain an apprehension with us (over Tibet)," said Menard, who was wearing the handlock T-shirt. "We will take action the twenty-four hours of the procession."

CNOSF president Henri Serandour backed Delanoe's streamer enterprise and called the procession "a message of peace," but urged RSF not to interrupt the relay because "respect must be shown to the jocks carrying this torch."

About 80 jocks will transport the torch over a 28-kilometer (17.4-mile) path that serpents unit of ammunition the Trocadero, down the Champs-Elysees toward City Hall, then traverses over the river Seine River to the left depository financial institution past times the National Assembly, before ending at the Charlety path and field stadium.

Protests in Thibet last calendar month then distribute to other parts of China. The Chinese authorities said 22 people died in the force and crackdown, but Tibetan expatriates claim about 140 people were killed.

The force have project a limelight on China's human rights record in the Himalayan region, and smashed the Chinese government's hopes for a peaceful run-up to the Olympic Games in August.

The Chinese embassy in City Of Light doesn't desire the path to go through the Gallic parliament.

"There have got been many treatments with China's embassy. Our place is to maintain the path the same," Serandour said.

The Olympic Charter prohibits any sort of presentation or political, spiritual or racial propaganda during the games.

Douillet, the 1996 and 2000 Olympic champion, said the badge will transport "a mark that is known by everyone." He added that no Gallic jocks had told him they wish to boycott the Aug. 8-24 games.

French pole pole vaulter Romain Mesnil desires jocks to have on greenish threads — the colour of hope — in Beijing. The CNOSF won't let its jocks to make that, but Douillet trusts the IOC will O.K. the badge.

"We have got establish a solution that lawsuits the CNOSF and which I trust will accommodate the IOC," Douillet said.

Several jocks from around the human race have got already spoken out about China's human rights record.

India association football captain Bhaichung Bhutia have said he won't transport the torch in the planetary relay, while Norse bicyclist Thor Hushovd is considering a boycott of the gap ceremony.

Stephane Diagana, the 400-meter human race title-holder in 1997 who is now president of France's national sport league, will be the first to transport the torch on Monday.

"They are not fooled, they are not political party to what is happening in China," Diagana said of jocks around the world. "I am happy to see that a batch of jocks are asking themselves questions."

Diagana called on the IOC to take a more than outstanding place with China.

"The jocks anticipate a lot, anticipate that the IOC plays its role," Diagana said. "The IOC is not pressuring People'S Republic Of China enough, at least not in a seeable way.

"There are four calendar months left ... it's worrying to see that the IOC is the lone 1 that remains very, very discreet."