Technorati.com, a service that provides search and indexing of weblogs, has been blocked by the Chinese government: From “Mad About Shanghai” blog: “It looks to me like Technorati has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Since yesterday I have been (unsuccessfully) trying to...

The New York Times Magazine has a large article covering China’s internet, Google’s relationship with China, and the odd ways in which censorship has evolved behind the Great Firewall of China. The article starts with a critical look at Google’s January 2006 launch of the self-censoring...

I just spotted this. A CNN reporter was thrown out of a private reception in Yale President Richard Levin’s office after he shouted a question about whether Hu had seen more than 1,000 protesters gathered on the city green. Yale spokeswoman Helene Kalsky said the reporter was thrown out because,...

I’m on the bus back from New Haven, we’ve just pulled out of a rest area where we had a sinfully pleasant McDonald’s and Budweiser pit stop. Around one hundred Tibetans joined a thousand plus Falun Gong practitioners. Most of the Falun Gong are Chinese immigrants, though I met practitioners who...

As I write this I’m on a bus that is entering Washington DC, where I and Tibetans and supporters (primarily the Tibetan Youth Congress and Students for a Free Tibet) with me on the bus are about to exercise all five rights accorded by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Congress shall make...

Noisy and colorful protests by Tibetans, Uighurs, Chinese democracy advocates and Falun Gong practitioners are underway in Washington, DC as President Bush meets with Hu Jintao. See below for links and excerpts from news articles reporting on the day’s events. Keep checking back for updates and...

After careful consideration of the Kashag (Tibetan Cabinet) request for Tibetans and supporters not to protest during Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States this week, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) has chosen to continue with our planned demonstrations. We did give very serious consideration...

Yahoo has provided China with evidence that helped them convict a Yahoo email user, Jiang Lijun. Here’s some info and there is an action you can do below! Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third...

Here are some pictures from yesterday’s protests of Hu Jintao, courtesy of David Huang. The demonstration was led by SFTers from the US and Canada, as well as the Seattle and Portland Regional Tibetan Youth Congresses. Expect more photos of SFT’s protests against Hu Jintao’s US visit...

Did you know Beijing, China’s capital and the pending site for the 2008 summer Olympics, is now in the middle of a desert? That’s right folks, thanks to rapid overdevelopment, destructive practices of water use, and widespread deforestation, the Gobi Desert has expanded at an alarming rate....