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Monthly Archives: August, 2008

UN experts seek whereabouts of the Panchen Rinpoche and Tibetans arrested earlier this year

The UN's Committee against Torture (CAT), an independent body of experts asked China to provide a complete list of all Tibetan detained following the March 2008 demonstration in Tibet. This request also includes information on their current

British journalist arrested for covering Free Tibet protest in Beijing

Chinese police dragged a British journalist along the ground and detained him after he tried to report on a pro-Tibet protest near the main Olympic stadium, witnesses told AFP

Tibet activists hang banner, blockade Beijing’s ‘Chinese ethnic culture park’

Five Tibet activists blockaded the front entrance of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, at the south end of the Olympic Park, at 12:30pm today. The five were behind locked bicycles across the

Cuba denies athlete signed China rights plea

A senior Cuban athletics coach denied on Monday that his team's best hope for a track gold at the Beijing Olympics had signed a controversial petition pressing China over Tibet and human

Dalai Lama reasserts support for Olympics; to meet French lawmakers

The Dalai Lama devoted his first day after arriving on Monday to religious and spiritual affairs. He offered prayers at Ganden Ling institute in Veneux Les Sablons outside Paris and greeted the town's

Discussing Tibet, Without the BS – Jamyang Norbu

For a book dealing with Sino-Tibetan relations Warren Smith’s new work takes an unusual standpoint. It refuses to assume the

Chinese troops suspected of shooting two Tibetan women

Free Tibet Campaign has received reports from a highly reliable source about the shooting of two Tibetan women on 9 August in Ngaba town in Ngaba (Ch: ABA) county

Chinese journalists censored

Chinese journalists have been prevented from reporting the stabbing murder of an American tourist at the Drum Tower and linking it to the Olympic Games

Senate speaker excludes press from meeting with Dalai Lama

Reporters Without Borders calls on French senate speaker Christian Poncelet to reverse his decision to exclude the press from a meeting in Paris on 13 August between French parliamentarians

Olympics: Radio Free Asia protests at media bar

A radio station banned by the Chinese authorities has filed a formal complaint with the International Olympic Committee after the Beijing organising committee (Bocog) failed to issue one

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