Tuesday, 14th October, 2008
03:00 PM
Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA Hall), Dharamshala, India
PANELIST
Dawa Phunkyi
- MP, Tibetan Parliament
Sertha Tsultrim
- MP, Tibetan Parliament
- Editor, The Tibet Express
Lung Rigyal
- Editor, Tibet Times
Urgen Tenzin
- Director, Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy
Organizers: Tibetan Women’s Association, GuChuSum Movement, National Democratic Party of Tibet, Students for a Free Tibet-India
Media Partner: www.phayul.com
Source http://www.rfa.org/english/news/woeser-09302008132134.html/woeser-2002
2008-09-30
By Dan Southerland, RFA Executive Editor-Tibet’s best-known female writer has evolved from a member of China’s privileged elite into a forceful critic. Despite the loss of her job, the closure of her blogs, and constant surveillance, Woeser reveals through her poems the courage to speak out.
WASHINGTON-”Most of all I wish you courage,” the American poet Pam Brown wrote to her daughter decades ago. “That usually takes care of everything else.”
Courage is a defining trait in the life and work of the contemporary Tibetan poet Woeser.
A banned author inside China, Woeser-the name means Rays of Light in Tibetan-continues to write from her small apartment in Beijing not only poems, but also essays and reports on the current situation in Tibet.
She is under constant Chinese police surveillance. (more…)
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7649761.stm
China has been monitoring and censoring messages sent through the internet service Skype, researchers say.
Citizen Lab, a Canadian research group, says it found a database containing thousands of politically sensitive words which had been blocked by China.
The publically available database also displayed personal data on subscribers.
Skype said it had always been open about the filtering of data by Chinese partners, but that it was concerned by breaches in the security of the site.
Citizen Lab researchers, based at the University of Toronto, said they discovered a huge surveillance system which had picked up and stored messages sent through the online telephone and text messaging service.
The database held more than 150,000 messages which included words such as “democracy” and “Tibet” and phrases relating to the banned spiritual movement, Falun Gong. (more…)
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
BEIJING (AP) - Jigme, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, says he had just finished having a pair of shoes mended when four uniformed guards jumped from a white van and dragged him inside.
Suppressing his calls to a passing nun for help, they shoved a sack over his head and drove him to a guesthouse run by the local paramilitary People’s Armed Police.
What followed, according to Jigme, was two months of interrogation and abuse over his suspected role in this spring’s uprising against Chinese rule across Tibet and a broad swath of Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China. (more…)
Chinadigitaltimes [Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:54]
The following diary is a blog by a Tibetan student from Amdo in Tibet, originally posted in Chinese language on Chinese language website, newcenturynews.com, and its English translation was posted on chinadigitaltimes.net. The blog provides a glimpse into life in a remote Tibetan area as the Olympics were being celebrated in Beijing.
Today is Tuesday, July 22, 2008, and it is the tenth day since I came back to my hometown. Within these ten days, even when I refused to watch any TV and kept myself away from the internet, almost every day I could still hear about and see things concerning the Beijing Olympics in the home of a countryman in a remote area in Tibet. Therefore, today I decided to write a special diary - an Olympic Diary. I want to record all the details about how I felt about the Beijing Olympics in this remote place in Tibet when the Olympics were about to begin in Beijing, when I had no access to internet or TV. (more…)
Tibetans and supporters vow to continue fight against China’s injustice
Contact:
Chime Youngdung: +91 9418 069 179
Tenzin Choeying: +91 9816 368 335
24 August 2008
Dharamshala: On the final day of the Beijing Olympics, hundreds of Tibetans and supporters in Dharamshala joined protesters across the world to voice their opposition to China’s continuous violence against the Tibetans inside Tibet. Adhe Tapontsang (Ama Adhe), a former political prisoner who spent a total of 27 years in Chinese labor camps since her arrest in 1958, was the Chief Guest at the function before the protest. Rigzin Choenyi and Lhundup Sangmo, two of the famous Drapchi 14 who’ve spent 12 and 9 years respectively in Chinese prison gave their testimony to the gathering.
“We urge the international community, and especially members of the media, not to divert their attention from China after the Beijing Olympics, as the Chinese authorities are likely to intensify their hostility towards Tibetans post-Olympics” said Tenzin Choeying, National Director of Students for a Free Tibet - India. “Tibetans and supporters all over the world are deeply concerned about the thousands of Tibetans who have been arrested and ‘disappeared’ since March this year, and we request governments around the world to pressurize China to release all political prisoners,” he continued.
The Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement organized a panel discussion on the “Tibetan People’s Uprising and the future of Tibetan Freedom Struggle” at the staff mess hall at Ganchen Kyishong. This is an initiative by the organizers to pioneer more open discussion and debate on the Tibetan Freedom Movement amongst the general public in all Tibetan community.
Panellists for the discussion today were Karma Choemphel, Chairman of the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputy (ATPD); Sonam Topgyal, former Kalon Tripa; Bawa Kalsang Gyaltsen, Member of ATPD; Narkyi Ngawang Dhondup, former Govt. staff (before 1959) and Lukar Jam, a Tibet researcher. Tashi Wangchuk,senior reporter for Radio Voice of Tibet and President of The Association of Tibetan Journalists chaired the discussion. (more…)
August 14th
[Dharamshala]: Hundreds of Tibetans and supporters gathered at Tsuklag khang (Main Temple) at 9:00 AM today to protest against Beijing’s violation of human rights in Tibet. The protesters started the demonstration led by people who have chained themselves symbolizing the political prisoners who continue to suffer severely under China’s brutality. Today, exactly five months ago on March 14th, people of Lhasa took to street following the arrest of Sera monastery on the 10th of March.
For the past one week since August 7th, Tibetans and supporters in Dharamshala have been doing series of protests to condemn China’s illegal occupation of Tibet. The Tibetans are demanding for the release of all political prisoners and are determined to highlight China’s massive human rights violation when Beijing is trying to divert the world’s attention from its reality to the staged Olympic Games. (more…)
The Tibetan People's Uprising Movement aims to revive the spirit of the Tibetan national uprising of 1959, and by engaging in nonviolent direct action, bring about an end to China's illegal occupation of Tibet. The March to Tibet was one initiative of this historic Movement.
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