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 […]
MountEverest.net reports that “an American climber is first man down in the recent ban of pro-Tibetan props on the south side of Everest. The mountaineer has been footed from the peak after police found a Tibetan flag on him. ” What is crazy to us is that it seems the climber simply had the flag IN HIS BAG, and hadn’t even performed a political act… though who know what he could have been planning.
Today at the UN Building in Bangkok. a peaceful demonstration against the presence of the Olympic Torch was held.
View more and comment on pictures from bangkok demonstration post or view the entire Bangkok-focused blog: http://notorch.blogspot.com/
Kenya’s Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai has pulled out of the Olympic torch relay in which she was due to take part over the weekend in Tanzania, citing concerns for worldwide human rights.
Maathai said she withdrew to show solidarity with activists over rights issues, including in Tibet where China’s crackdown on recent protests have sparked […]
Great news from the US Congress. The Gavel reports:
The House has just overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the Chinese government to end its crackdown in Tibet and to enter into a substantive dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, H.Res. 1077. House Resolution 1077 was introduced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the […]
The Associated Press reports:
Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the committee would consider ending the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay because of anti-Chinese protests.
Rogge told The Associated Press he was ”deeply saddened” by violent protests in London and Paris and concerned about the upcoming torch relay in San Francisco, where […]
Now that the full scale of the controversy that is the Beijing Olympics is beginning to be broadcast around the world through three days of major protests in London and Paris, it is time for San Francisco - the next stop in the torch relay and the only stop on American soil - to cancel […]
Four Tibet independence activists were detained this morning after two activists abseiled off Westminster Bridge and unfurled a 74 square meter protest banner reading, “One World, One Dream: Free Tibet 2008,” mocking China’s Olympics slogan “One World, One Dream.” The action took place on the eve of the controversial arrival of China’s Olympic torch relay […]
The Sydney Morning Heralds reports on How activists have hijacked the symbols of the Olympic Games and used them to shame China.
Great coverage of our recently released Torch Relay Animation Parody:
A similarly edgy animation is being promoted by Students for a Free Tibet on its parody of the official Torch Relay site. The animation, a […]
The Chinese government’s relentless efforts to silence Tibetans and legitimize its control over Tibet are clearly not limited to Tibet and China. The Chinese government’s long, flexed arm, extents to India, Nepal, and even Greece. Below are a few images of members of Students for a Free Tibet and the Tibetan Youth Association of Europe […]
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