Boing Boing tv (Beijing): interview with pro-Tibet videobloggers in hiding.
August 27, 2008
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
August 27, 2008
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, [...]
Tibet’s most famous woman blogger, Woeser, detained by police
August 25, 2008
Times Online
August 25, 2008
Jane Macartney in Beijing
Tibet’s most famous woman writer and blogger has been questioned by police for eight hours, accused of taking photographs on the street, after she returned home briefly to the capital, Lhasa.
The detention of Woeser, who like many Tibetans goes by a single name, underscores the nervousness of the authorities [...]
Restive, remote Tibetan region under military lockdown
August 25, 2008
GARZE PREFECTURE, China (AFP) — Armed soldiers line the roads throughout these remote foothills of the Himalayas, travellers’ identifications are checked, and Tibetan monks talk warily of their communist Chinese rulers.
Garze prefecture, a rugged area that has historically been one of China’s most volatile Tibetan regions, hit the headlines again last week after the Dalai [...]
News Analysis - After Glow of Games, What Next for China?
August 25, 2008
New York Times
By JIM YARDLEY
Published: August 24, 2008
BEIJING — The elaborate closing ceremony that ended the Olympic Games on Sunday also ended nearly a decade in which the ruling Communist Party had made the Games an organizing principle in national life. Almost nothing has superseded the Olympics as a political priority [...]
China deports 8 American protesters - The move comes hours after the U.S. Embassy called for the men’s release and expressed disappointment that the Games did not bring more tolerance to the nation.
August 25, 2008
Los Angeles Times
By Mark Magnier and Greg Johnson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
August 25, 2008
BEIJING — Eight Americans jailed for holding peaceful protests were deported Sunday during the Olympics closing ceremony, the U.S. Embassy said.
The action came just hours after the embassy urged their release and expressed disappointment that the Games [...]
China Deports 8 Americans Held in Protests
August 25, 2008
New York Times
By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: August 24, 2008
BEIJING — Eight American protesters detained by the Chinese authorities last week and given 10-day sentences were released six days early, family members and protest organizers said Sunday.
Students for a Free Tibet, the organization that staged a series of unauthorized demonstrations during the Olympics, [...]
China Frees 8 American Protesters After Diplomatic Pressure
August 25, 2008
Washington Post
By Jill Drew
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, August 25, 2008; Page A11
BEIJING, Aug. 24 — China released eight American protesters from jail and put them on a plane for Los Angeles on Sunday night as the Beijing Olympics closed in a rousing ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium, an advocacy group [...]
China deports US Tibet protester
August 25, 2008
BBC
Monday, 25 August 2008 04:53 UK
Signs of dissent have been rare during the Beijing Olympics
China has deported eight Americans detained in Beijing last week for demonstrating about Tibet during the Olympic Games.
The eight left China on Sunday while the closing ceremony was taking place after American officials pressed for them [...]
Tallying the human cost of the Beijing Games
August 25, 2008
Globe and Mail
GEOFFREY YORK
August 24, 2008 at 10:47 PM EDT
BEIJING — If there was an alternative Olympic medal list for human-rights violations, it would contain numbers like these: 53 detained pro-Tibet activists, 77 rejected protest applications, at least 15 Chinese citizens arrested for seeking to protest, about 10 dissidents jailed and [...]
