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1,100 Tibet protesters arrested in Nepal ahead of Olympics

Nepalese police said they had arrested at least 1,100 Tibetans protesting near Chinese embassy buildings on Friday, hours ahead of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics

Reporters without borders make pirate broadcast in Beijing

The world's best-known advocate of freedom of the media took its message to the heart of Beijing this morning, making a pirate broadcast on Chinese radio exactly 12 hours to the minute before

Dissident invites Olympic chief to visit jail

As Tibet protests rippled around the globe yesterday, one of China's most prominent dissidents delivered a powerful rebuke to the head of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques

Text Message About Hunger Striker’s Death Turns Out Rumor

A speculation about the death of one of the six hunger strikers has been doing rounds in the Tibetan circles through text

Nepal arrests nearly 600 Tibetan exiles at anti-China protests

Nepalese police Thursday arrested hundreds of Tibetans taking part in anti-China protests a day ahead of the official start of the Olympic Games in Beijing, as Nepalese government hinted of even

‘Timing not right’ for Sarkozy meeting: Dalai Lama spokesman

The Dalai Lama's representative in France said Thursday the month of the Olympics was the wrong time for him to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but that a meeting would take place later

Security tightened at Chinese Embassy in Delhi

With the stage set for Beijing Olympics tomorrow, a multi-layer security cordon was thrown around the Chinese Embassy here as a precautionary measure to ward off protests by Tibetans as

Taiwanese, Tibetans urge China hold ‘human right Olympics’

More than 200 Taiwanese, Tibetans and Chinese dissidents held a rally on the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics to demand China hold a "human rights Olympics."The rally at Taipei's

German fencer to skip opening ceremony in protest

A German fencer is fashioning her own opening ceremony, skipping the official one to protest China's communist government. Imke Duplitzer, who won a silver medal in Athens, will stay away from

Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongolians protested in front of the Chinese embassy in Berlin

A day before the Olympics open in Beijing, around 100 protestors rallied in front of the Chinese embassy in Berlin Thursday to demonstrate for human rights. Similar protests are planned in

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