The Tibet provincial government just stopped issuing travel permits to individual international visitors. From Bloomberg. Chinese authorities discouraged tour groups from visiting Tibet, saying pro-independence activists damaged...
Read MoreTibetan unrest has prompted the Chinese government to undertake its most comprehensive Internet censorship campaign in recent memory. YouTube has been blocked inside China, presumably to stop the spread of videos of the chaos in...
Read MoreThe number of jailed Lhasa protesters now roars to 30. From Bloomberg: Chinese authorities in Tibet said 30 people were jailed yesterday for taking part in pro-independence riots in Lhasa last month. Three protesters were...
Read MoreSecurity forces in Lhasa have detained or expelled hundreds of residents and pilgrims, according to a local source, after two monks reportedly set themselves on fire outside the Jokhang Temple on Sunday in the most serious...
Read MoreShortly after postponing a summit with the European Union in protest over French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to meet with the Dalai Lama, a Chinese official announced through state media that over 1,000 people...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese courts jailed 12 more rioters for their roles in unrest in Tibet, state media said, weeks before the Beijing Olympics and after Beijing deported a Tibetan British woman it accused of anti-government...
Read MoreAmnesty International issued a report which says that more than 1,000 Tibetans remain in police custody following the unrest in Lhasa and other Tibetan areas in March. From a Reuters report: China’s grip on dissent in...
Read MoreFrom the Woeser’s blog, translated by Perry Link and students of Chinese 153 at Yale University: In March, 2008 the weather was cooler than normal in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, as the anniversary of “March...
Read MoreChinese anger over the Tibet riots and Western media’s coverage of them has now been immortalized in a rap song. Entitled “Dragon’s Roar” (龙哮), the song and an accompanying video have been circulating...
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