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CHINA DEPORTS TEN TIBET SUPPORTERS DURING OLYMPICS CLOSING CEREMONY

Students for a Free Tibet activists worldwide welcome the news of the release of the ten Tibet supporters, jailed by Chinese authorities in Beijing during the Olympics. Chinese authorities deported eight American Tibet supporters as the Olympics closing ceremonies were concluding on Sunday night in Beijing. Hours later, the remaining two Tibet supporters in detention – a Briton and a German National of Tibetan descent – were also deported.

“After two days of negative publicity over its extrajudicial detention of ten Tibet supporters, the Chinese government is seeking to suppress a story that would have cast a shadow over the closing ceremony of these Olympic Games, which includes a final propaganda push to legitimize China’s rule in Tibet, with Tibetans singing and dancing along with other so-called “ethnic minorities,” said Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet.

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FREE TIBET CAMPAIGNERS SPEAK OUT IN BEIJING

Beijing – Two members of Students for a Free Tibet held an open-air press conference in Beijing today at 2:35 pm outside the Jianguomenwai diplomatic compound. Briton Alice Speller, 25, and American Ginger Cassady, 30, spoke for ten minutes and answered questions from journalists. The press conference capped two and a half weeks of protests by Tibetans and their supporters in Beijing and a seven-year global campaign since Beijing’s Olympic bid to make China’s ongoing and brutal occupation of Tibet a critical issue for the current and future Chinese leadership. READ MORE HERE

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CHINA DEPORTS TEN TIBET SUPPORTERS DURING OLYMPICS CLOSING CEREMONY

As Olympics Conclude, China pursues final propaganda push on Tibet FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 24, 2008 Contacts: Tenzin Dorjee, Deputy Director, Han... Read more

For Immediate Release: Eight Tibet Supporters Arrive Home to New York from Beijing After Being Jailed by Chinese Authorities During Olympic Games

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Monday, August 25, 2008 Contacts: In New York-Celia Alario, +1917 289 0219; Amy Lisbeth +1 917 860 6470; In UK-Han Shan and Tenzin... Read more

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Boing Boing tv (Beijing): interview with pro-Tibet videobloggers in hiding.

Posted by Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing

August 25, 2008 10:34 AM

Last week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for participating in pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests near the site of the 2008 Olympics, with Students for a Free Tibet. Two videobloggers who documented those protest and guerrilla art installations evaded detention, and spoke to Boing [...]

The “Olympics Diary” of a Tibetan

Posted by Tashibod on China Digital Times
The following diary was originally posted in Chinese and provides a glimpse into life in a remote Tibetan area as the Olympics were being celebrated in Beijing:
Today is Tuesday, July 22, 2008, and it is the tenth day since I came back to my hometown. Within these ten days, [...]