Fifty-five Tibetans have been sentenced for their role in the March riots, according to the New York Times: The prison sentences range from three years to life, Xinhua reported. The report in Xinhua was based on comments made...
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 MoreDavid Barboza reports on The New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: In life, the five young women who burned to death in a Chinese clothing store during rioting in Tibet on March 14 were not the types who would...
Read MoreThis is the title of a post on the Spirit of the Night blog, translated by CDT. The author is a reporter for China Central Television (CCTV). (The question and answer text is taken from the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s...
Read MoreIn Lhasa during the recent riots, a tourist who requested anonymity took this photo of Chinese goods being burned. Source: The New York Times.The Times looks at the generation behind the recent Lhasa riots and their discontent:...
Read MoreAs Chinese authorities reportedly beef up the military presence in Tibetan regions out west, efforts are being made to have Lhasa return to some semblance of normalcy. Nevertheless, sporadic reports of ongoing protests are still...
Read More“Photos and footage of the bloody riots and protests in Tibet continue to make their way onto the web, despite the Chinese authorities’ best efforts to both spin the news and stifle reports emerging from the...
Read MoreUpdate to previous post, March 18, 2008 (to be updated throughout the day): According to a Tibet official, 100 people have turned themselves into police after riots rocked the region’s capital of Lhasa. Reuters reports:...
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