SFT India’s great vid about Runggye Adak and other brave Tibetans whom have been recently arrested for exercising their fundamental rights. Choeying-la, Ludup-la and Tenchoe-la, ya’ll rawk. Spread this far and wide folks. Myspace/Facebook/Hi5

Tibet and Burma are linked in many ways: their peoples and languages are related, and they share a deep faith in Buddhism and the misfortune of being under brutal regimes. Tibet and Burma also both saw widespread protests for freedom in the late 1980s, which their respective regimes crushed violently. Could...

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SFT’s Everest and Beijing actions continue to impact news stories about the Olympics, China, and Tibet.  In the latest example, the UK’s Channel 4 News ran a TV story on August 28 about how the Chinese government is exerting socio-economic control over Tibet.  The anchor started out the...

From Al Jazeera TV (August 26, 2007): “Since the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, fled Tibet and set up a government-in-exile in India, tens of thousands have followed him across the Himalayas. Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Dharamsala, India,” on the situation of...

In China or Tibet, you would be protected from reading harmful information like this blog.  And the ever-helpful Chinese cyber cops have just instituted a new way to protect people’s delicate minds from illicit information. According to a BBC report, Chinese authorities are to send two virtual...

Runggye Adak, the brave Tibetan whose act of free speech set off the Lithang crackdown, has been charged by the Chinese authorities with subversion. The AP reports: Prosecutors … indicted him on the charge of “provocation to subvert state power,” the Hong Kong-based Information Center...

SFT HQ would like to humbly thank Team Tibet Toronto’s generous contribution to Students for a Free Tibet. This past weekend, the world reknowned Pema Cup Soccer Tourney was played here in NYC. It was hosted by the amazing Tibetan designer Migmar Tsering (check out his line at www.PemaNy.com)...

It is heart-rending, simply heart-rending, to consider the implications of the Chinese government’s new regulations claiming the right to control Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations.  While we wrote about this issue before (here, here and here), a new analysis by the Congressional-Executive Commission...

I live close to SFT Headquarters and stop by regularly. I speak to Lhadon or Tendor almost daily and I live with Heather, who works at SFT every day. Still, I’m busy and so are they and sometimes I learn profound news by receiving an Action Alert or by visiting the SFT website, like anybody else....