It’s important for Tibet supporters to remember that China’s tyrannical ban on religious speech and practice extends far beyond their restrictions on Buddhism and the Falun Gong, but to Christianity as well. Two Catholic priests were recently arrested for unknown reasons, following the detention...

Yingsel, the Tibetan Antelope, was captured by the Chinese authorities, renamed “Yingying,” and forced to be one of the “Friendlies” - the Beijing 2008 Olympic mascots. You are Yingsel . Use the cursor keys to navigate the maze. Eat the power-up momo’s* and use your Rangzen*...

The Dalai Lama paid a high-profile four-day visit to Israel last week. The visit received enormous media attention in Israel where he has long been a popular figure. No government officials met with the Dalai Lama out of fear of antagonizing the biggest buyer of Israeli weapons - the Chinese government....

Palden Gyatso, Tibet’s second longest-serving political prisoner, and two young Tibetan men have been on a hunger strike in a tent outside the Turin Olympic Vilage, Italy, to call attention to China’s oppression in Tibet. The Indefinite Hunger Strike, organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress...

Under this awkward title, a recent Phayul.com article gives new insight into the recent phenomenon of masses of Tibetans in Amdo burning animal skins in response to a recent appeal from the Dalai Lama. At the Kalachakra intitiation in southern India in January, the Dalai Lama spoke pointedly, saying...

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Yesterday’s Washington Post has a trio of stories on China’s censorship apparatus. The Post has one of the most complete lists of words China’s internet censors use to block websites, search results, and blog posts yet compiled. Similar keyword lists are used by Internet service providers...

Update by Philo and The Board: Phayul now has a video of Tibetans burning furs in a giant bonfire. Click here to watch the video. Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan activist in India, says: The trend seem to have caught up like a connecting act as in a revolution. What started like a religious sermon by the His...

The Global Online Freedom Act of 2006 is approaching introduction in the US House of Representatives. What will it contain? How will it affect the way US internet companies do business with China? If preliminary leaks of the bill, authored by NJ Republican Chris Smith, are accurate almost everything...

I was interviewed yesterday by Tom Mello of the E-Commerce Times on EFF’s proposed code of conduct for US internet companies that work in regimes, like China, who heavily censor the internet. EFF’s proposed code is “a step in the right” direction, said Matt Browner-Hamlin, operations...