The marchers left Moradabad at 6am and walked 25 kilometers. They camped on a big ground located near Bawabpur stadium. The owner of the ground, Mr Gulzar Khan, a timber merchant from Rampur, generously provided electricity and water for the marchers to take showers and to do their laundry.
The marchers had an active day in […]
MountEverest.net is an amazing site that aggregates all the climbing news of the Himalaya region. With one of the many olympic torches at the Northside (Tibetan side that is!) basecamp, the site is abuzz with updates and news from the area… well, at least what news can get out, due to a basically complete blackout […]
People inside Tibet had, in unimaginably lonely and secretive ways, faithfully nurtured the embers of Rangzen for all these many years. In spite of decades of propaganda, “political re-education”, surveillance by informers, spies, and agents, and (once in a while) brutal interrogation by trained and experienced torturers, they had managed to hide and protect this faith in the deepest recesses of their hearts.
Do you think its ludicrous that an international brand with the prestige and recognition of Coca Cola is sponsoring the Olympic torch run through Tibet at a time when Tibetans are protesting and dying and the Chinese government is putting the entire nation on lockdown? So do we. Show us exactly how you feel. SFT […]
Moradabad, Apr 30 (ANI): Exiled Tibetans, who are on their return march to Tibet, reached Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday.
The marchers had resumed their peaceful march to Tibet on April 19 from New Delhi.
After the successful conduct of the Olympic torch relay in New Delhi on April 17, they set out on foot towards […]
Two members of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) were barred from entering Hong Kong today, the same day that 17 Tibetans were sentenced in Lhasa to between three years and life in prison in connection to the March protests against China’s occupation of Tibet. The two Canadians deported from Hong Kong, Tsering Lama, 24, from Toronto, and Kate Woznow, 27, from New York, were detained and questioned for three hours upon their respective arrivals at Hong Kong International airport. The activists had planned to hold a press conference in Hong Kong to coincide with the Olympic torch run through the city on May 2nd.
The marchers left from Pakwara at 6am and covered a total of 20 kilmeters.
The marchers paused in Moradabad to hold a prayer session at Dr. Ambedkar Park to mark the 10th anniversary of Martyr Thupten Ngodup’s self immolation for the Tibetan cause. This was followed by a press conference at 10:30am. The organizing committee would […]
Wired’s Threat Level Blog reports good news coming out of the US Congress. Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) is renewing his efforts to get the Global Online Freedom Act passed before the Beijing Olympics.
Republican congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey used a meeting with international human rights group Reporters Without Borders last week to lobby for […]
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reports that the Chinese government has begun to hand down public sentences for Tibetans “tried” in connection to protests in Lhasa.
China’s state media today morning announced that 17 Tibetans have been sentenced between three years to life imprisonment in connection with the Lhasa revolt in March 2008. […]
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