sentences:  A giant banner reading "Free Tibet" was also displayed on the torch route.According to a representative from the NGO 'Human Rights Torch Relay', their objective was to "show the contradiction between the Olympic Games and the presence of widespread human rights violations in China" The outreach director of HRTR, Susan Prager, is also the communication director of "Friends of Falun Gong", a quasi-government non-profit funded by fmr.Congressman Tom Lanto's wife and Ambassador Mark Palmer of NED.