Protests continue outside the White House amidst the state visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao. On Wednesday, demonstrators called on Obama to press Hu on China’s treatment of Tibetans and Uyghurs.

Tenzin Dorjee of Students for a Free Tibet: “We hope that President Obama can actually earn the Nobel Prize that he won two years ago and convince Chinese President Hu Jintao to release all the political prisoners in Tibet and in China.”

Omar Kanat of the Uyghur American Association: “We are here to protest all these crimes that he committed against the Uyghur people, and we are here to ask the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to raise the Uyghur human rights issue in their meetings with the Chinese president and ask him and urge him to stop all the brutalities which is being carried out against the Uyghur people.”