TIBETAN MAN AND THREE SUPPORTERS DETAINED AFTER BEIJING PROTEST – AUGUST 21, 2008
August 20, 2008
INTENSIVE SURVEILLANCE FAILS TO PREVENT ACTION FOR TIBET FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 21, 2008 Contacts: In Asia, Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director, and Kate Woznow, Campaigns Director, +1 917 289 0219 or +44 20 7084 6245 **Bios and photos of the activists available at http://freetibet2008.org/globalactions/tibetanflag Beijing – After intense surveillance by up to 50 plainclothes police, [...]
BRIGHT LIGHTS SPELL OUT “FREE TIBET” ON BANNER IN BEIJING
August 19, 2008
FIVE AMERICANS DETAINED AFTER DISPLAY NEAR NATIONAL STADIUM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 20, 2008 Contacts: In Asia, Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director, and Kate Woznow, Campaigns Director, +1 917 289 0219 or +44 20 7084 6245 ***Photos, video footage, and the activists’ bios are available at: http://freetibet2008.org/globalactions/lightbanner Beijing – Five pro-Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling [...]
International Artist Detained in Beijing for Planning Pro-Tibet Free Speech Exhibit Students for a Free Tibet Notified of Detention by Twitter Message
August 19, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 19, 2008 Contacts: In Asia, Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director, and Kate Woznow, Campaigns Director US +1-917-289-0219 UK +44 20 7084 6245 Photos and more information available at: http://freetibet2008.org/globalactions/jamespowderly/ International Artist Detained in Beijing for Planning Pro-Tibet Free Speech Exhibit Students for a Free Tibet Notified of Detention by Twitter Message Beijing [...]
China to deport five activists
August 14, 2008
CNN August 14, 2008 — Updated 0324 GMT (1124 HKT) BEIJING, China (CNN) — Five activists protesting on behalf of Tibet, including three Americans, were arrested Thursday for what Chinese police called “activities against Chinese law” and will be deported, Beijing police said. The incident occurred at about 5:45 a.m. in the Chaoyang District in [...]
Paris: Free Tibet Banner Unfurled Near Eiffel Tower
August 10, 2008
Two members of SFT-France, Guillaume and Antoine, rappelled off of the Debilly footbridge near the Eiffel Tower and the Chinese Embassy, and hung a banner reading “Tibet Libre, Free Tibet.” The climbers stayed suspended with the banner for nearly 45 minutes, while fellow activists up on the footbridge held Tibetan national flags and banners reading [...]
TIBET PROTESTORS UNFURL TIBET FLAG AT HONG KONG OLYMPIC EVENT
August 9, 2008
Students for a Free Tibet FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: In Hong Kong: Brianna Cotter, +852-6405-0446 and Matt Browner-Hamlin, +852-9284-2864 In Asia: Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director and Kate Woznow, Campaigns Director, +1 917-289-0228 or +44 2070-846-359 * The activists’ bios will be available shortly at: http://freetibet2008.org/mediacenter/updates/ Hong Kong – Two Tibet protestors unveiled a Tibetan national [...]
Vancouver: Coalition Demonstration and Banner Hang
August 9, 2008
Dylan Sparks of Vancouver SFT climbed a lamppost across the street from the Chinese consulate during a major protest that included Chinese dissidents, Uighurs, and Tibetans. He unfurled a banner which read “One World One Dream Free Tibet” and a Tibetan flag as the crowd cheered him on. Dylan eventually came down on his own [...]
New York: Tibetans Arrested for Civil Disobedience at Chinese Consulate
August 9, 2008
New York- On the day of the 2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies 10 local Tibetans chained themselves to each other and to police barricades outside of the Chinese Consulate. Others sat down on the West Side Highway across the street from the building. The activists were arrested and are now in police custody. At about [...]
Tibet Protest in Tiananmen Square 08.09.08
August 9, 2008
Beijing – Five Tibet supporters held a dramatic protest in Tiananmen Square early this afternoon, calling for an end to the Chinese government’s occupation of Tibet. Four of the activists, lying down and draped in Tibetan national flags, staged a mock die-in with the famous portrait of Mao in the background. A fifth activist spoke [...]
Free Tibet Activists Raise the Tibetan Flag Prior to Olympic Opening Ceremony; Tackled by Chinese Police
August 8, 2008
At just past 7pm, approximately one hour before the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, two Americans, Jonathan Stribling-Uss, 27, and Kalaya’an Mendoza, 29, and an Argentine-American, Cesar Maxit, 32, staged a symbolic protest near the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing. At Beituching and Beiching Roads, the last major intersection on Beichen Road [...]
