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China’s New Freedom Fighters

As part of its Olympic run-up coverage, The Guardian interviews six of China’s most prominent activists and dissidents: novelist Ma Jian, AIDS activist Wan Yanhai, human rights lawyer Li Fangping, environmentalist Dai...

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China Says Arrests 16 for Bombings in Tibet

The Chinese government has announced that 16 people, mostly monks, have been arrested in Tibet in relation to the unrest there in March. From Reuters: Xinhua news agency did not say if there were any casualties from the blasts...

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Ahshn: Lhasa Witness, March 2008

From 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...

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Diagnosing the Current Situation in Tibet

An English translation of a 2006 interview with Tibetan writer Woeser, conducted by writer Namlo Yak, has been posted on the Tibet Writes blog: Q: What is your current situation? [Note: The interview was conducted in 2006]...

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A Lone Tibetan Voice, Intent on Speaking Out

Washington Post foreign correspondent Jill Drew reports from Beijing, via phayul.com: Each morning, it is the same. She rises and heads to her computer to write, to pierce the silence that otherwise shrouds events these days in...

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Tibet Update (4) April 29 – 30

These updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. Since her blog being...

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Tibet Update (3) April 15 – 27

These updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. April 27 Press...

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Tibet Update (2)

These updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. April 2 The 11th...

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Intellectuals in China Condemn Crackdown

In today’s New York Times, Howard French reports: A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals has circulated a petition urging the government to stop what it calls a “one sided” propaganda campaign about Tibet and initiate...

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Tibetan Writer Under House Arrest in Beijing

Radio Free Asia reports from Hong Kong: Authorities in Beijing have been holding Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser and her Chinese husband under house arrest in the capital since the beginning of the recent anti-Chinese protests in...

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