.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Google News Front Page of Everest Action, originally uploaded by sftflickr. Pretty cool — the Mount Everest banner...

Now that’s what I call an effective banner! The Olympic torch is increasingly lighting up political controversy for China. Today, the host of the 2008 Summer Games plans to reveal the route of the torch relay that will carry the Olympic flame into Beijing. But in what may be a prelude of things...

SFT Board Member Tenzin Wangyal has written an excellent tribute to our favorite five people, with some wonderful insight into his good friend Tendor: “Many of you who know Tendor from his days at TCV might have been somewhat surprised to learn about Tendor’s prominent role in this recent action,...

Set 1: Press Conference and full and individual group shots Set 2: Reception with Northern Tingri Community Association, Western Tibetan Community Group, 4 rivers 6 Ranges Guerrilla Resistance Force (fought in 50’s - 70’s)

Now that the five American activists who staged a protest on Mount Everest calling for Tibetan independence are safely in Nepal, they are telling the story of their detention to the press. SFT’s deputy director Tenzin Dorjee told Radio Free Asia about their repeated questioning and Chinese interrogators...

KNTV News (NBC): KTVU News (FOX): KPIX News (CBS): BBC: Technorati Tags: Beijing Olympics, Mount Everest, Tibet

China expels five activists detained after Everest protest Five Tibetan independence activists were released early Friday morning by Chinese authorities in Tibet. Tenzin Dorjee (pictured above before the protest), Kirsten Westby, Laurel Mac Sutherlin and Shannon Service were detained on Wednesday for...

We at SFT have spent the last couple of days working extensively to support the activists who staged an historic protest on Mount Everest against China’s occupation of Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games and help tell their story to the international press. But as we work to spread the news about...

Nearly two days after they were detained at Mount Everest base camp for an unprecedented protest against the Beijing 2008 Olympics, four American Tibet activists remain missing. One American eyewitness to the protest has arrived safely in Nepal. Tenzin Dorjee, the first known exile Tibetan to stage a...

KPIX TV of San Francisco ran an in-depth report on the free Tibet activists who unfurled a banner calling for Tibetan independence on Mount Everest Wednesday morning. The piece focused on Bay Area residents Shannon Service and Laurel Mac Sutherlin and included interviews by SFT’s campaigns coordinator...