Tibet Protest on Tiananmen Square!!!

For the second time since the Athens Olympics, there’s been a Tibet protest in Beijing. Last time it was Han (from SFT) and Liam (from ATC) unfurling a banner from the bridge in Beijing Nationalities Park. This time it’s Wangpo Tethong (from International Tibet Support Network’s Olympics Campaign) holding up a banner on Tiananmen Square. Below is from www.phayul.com UPDATE: A more recent article can be viewed here.

Beijing – Two days prior to the 47th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day, Wangpo Tethong (43), a Tibetan activist from Switzerland, today called upon the Chinese leadership meeting in Beijing at the National People’s Congress, to seriously review their Tibet policies and to find and implement a sincere solution to the Tibet conflict.

The Olympics countdown clock in front of the National Museum displaying ‘884 days till the opening of the Games 2008’, acted as a backdrop as he unfurled a banner on which was written, “Hu, you can’t stop us! 2008-FreeTibet.org“.

In his role as co-ordinator of the International Tibet Support Network’s Olympics Campaign, Tethong met with journalists and briefed them on the goals of the campaign. “It only follows that if no concrete progress on the question of Tibet is made, the protests will intensify in the next two years until the Olympic Games�, he said.

Read Wangpo Tethong’s open letter to Hu Jintao here. Read more recent updates at

www.2008-FreeTibet.org.