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 [...]
‘I Won’t Regret to Die’ - Tibetans Speak Out on Film at Their Own Risk
August 15, 2008
ABC News
By STEPHANIE SY, MARGARET ARO and SARAH NETTER
Aug. 15, 2008
As the Olympic flame flickers atop the Bird’s Nest, foreigners with human rights torches of their own have chosen this moment to stage brazen protests.
Two Tibetan women sit together in Lhasa. (ABC News)
Pro-Tibetan activists have entered China on tourist visas, knowing that [...]
Tibetan exiles in India arrested near China border
August 5, 2008
DHARAMSALA, India (Associated Press) - Indian police detained 56 Tibetan exiles, including several monks and nuns, attempting to cross the border into China and protest the Beijing Olympics, police said Tuesday.
The arrests were made late Sunday night in Tabo, a remote village high in the Himalayas about 15 miles from India’s border with China, said [...]
Spain to hear Tibetan lawsuit against Chinese leaders
August 5, 2008
Liang Guanglie
MADRID (AFP) — Spain’s top criminal court agreed Tuesday to hear a lawsuit from Tibetan rights groups that accuses Chinese leaders of genocide in connection with the unrest that erupted in the region in March.
The suit was filed on July 9 against seven Chinese leaders, including Defence Minister Liang Guanglie, by the Tibet Support [...]
US lawmakers Calls on China to end rights abuses in Tibet
July 24, 2008
24 July 2008
Tibet.net
Washington: A resolution was introduced in the US House of Representatives Wednesday that called on China “to immediately end abuses of the human rights and cease repression of Tibetan and Uighur citizens, and to end its support for the governments of Sudan and Burma (Myanmar),” Associated Press reported.
The resolution, proposed by Howard Berman, [...]
A rare Tibetan critic sues China’s government
July 24, 2008
By AUDRA ANG
The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — The poet Woeser has long been a rarity — a Tibetan living in China who doesn’t flinch from publicly criticizing the Chinese government. Now the activist is taking another unusual step.
After being repeatedly denied a passport for three years, the Beijing resident has sued the government demanding to [...]
Statement of the Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement
July 22, 2008
For Immediate Release
July 22, 2008
Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement
July 22 Press Conference in DharamsalaWe are today at the crossroad of historic moment in the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedom, truth and justice. Our unity in action and focus in purpose during the following months will not only define the long and strategic preparations that we have [...]
China says it will never discuss Tibet’s future with Dalai Lama
July 18, 2008
July 18, 2008
By Phurbu Thinley
Phayul
Dharamsala, July 17: A senior Chinese official has stated that China is willing to talk to the Dalai Lama about his future and that of some of his supporters but not that of Tibet, according to media reports.
Special Envoy Lodi Gyari during a meeting on July 1, 2008,with Du Qinglin, Vice [...]
Tibetans see little point in more talks with China: envoy
July 15, 2008
BRUSSELS (AFP) — The Tibetan Dalai Lama’s special envoy said Tuesday that Tibetans had told China that they see no point in the dialogue with Beijing, begun in 2002, because Beijing is not serious about the talks.
“We do not see any useful purpose in continuing the dialogue, since there is obviously a lack of political [...]
