Image:afn In August 2010 a delegation of Chinese government officials and businessmen representing ‘tourist enterprises’ from so-called Qinghai Province (actually a region comprised of Tibetan lands known as Amdo and Kham) were part of a trade mission that targeted a group of Canada’s native peoples. The delegation visited the Stó:lō Nation in a cynical effort [...]
A bulletin just received from colleagues at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that three Uyghur-language website managers were (Friday July 30th) given prison terms of three to ten years having been determined ‘guilty’ of what the communist Chinese regime laughingly called “endangering state security.” The three had been imprisoned following demonstrations against Chinese [...]
Image:archivenet India, that nation which itself emerged from foreign domination, announced July 29 that there was to be no change to its position on Tibet, which it is happy to assert as being Chinese territory. Ever mindful of economic relations with China, and the military sensitivities that shadow relations with Beijing concerning India’s border with [...]
New York, July 26, 2010—The 15-year jail sentence imposed by a Chinese court on Uighur journalist and website manager Gheyrat Niyaz is unjustly harsh and should be overturned immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The fact that Niyaz was convicted under sweeping “endangering state security” charges is an indicator of how far the [...]
Image:chinadigitaltimes The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called upon China’s Regime to drop charges against Gheyret Niyaz, a Uyghur journalist and website manager, and release him from prison. According to the Uyghur American Association (UAA), Niyazi will be tried July 28 in Urumqi, the capital of East Turkestan ( Editors note: named by communist [...]
Image:tchrd Shot dead, Mr. Thawa Ghongma was among eight other 8 Tibetans killed by Chinese Security Forces when thousands of monks from Ngaba Kirti Monastery led a pro-Tibet independence demonstration on March 16 2008. “Eyewitness accounts confirm that Chinese security forces used disproportionate force and acted with deliberate brutality during and after unprecedented Tibetan protests [...]
Tibettruth is very happy to report that awareness of Yeshi Choedon’s case is growing daily, thanks to the tremendous kindness and determination from many of our subscribers, and also due to the activism and concern of our friends and supporters at Tibettruth-Twitter. The response has been inspiring as friends of Tibettruth from around the [...]
Image:kansascity Like previous English Secretary’s Of State, William Hague made the required pilgrimage to Beijing to placate the communist Chinese regime and assure them of England’s continuing servility, an action demanded not least of all due to massive national debt, a not inconsiderable amount of which was generated by borrowing from China through the sale [...]
What sort of Alice-in-Wonderland politics prevails in which a governmental authority, representing those struggling for national freedom, goes against the aspirations of its own people by agreeing to the extinction of their national identity, the demise of their cause as an international issue and seeks a form of slavery (hereinafter referred to as ‘meaningful autonomy’) [...]
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