Pro-Tibet campaigners to be in Beijing
Pro-Tibet campaigners say they will be in Beijing and will attempt to stage peaceful protests during the Olympics despite stringent restrictions ahead of the Games
Tutu, Havel urge athletes to speak up at Games
Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu called on Olympic athletes on Thursday to speak up on human rights in China during the Beijing Olympics next month
Dalai Lama challenged by new generation of Buddhist activists
Gedun Gyatso, a 27-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk, is so devoted to the Dalai Lama that when he was in prison, he placed a picture of him next to his pillow in open defiance of his jailers
Banning Tibet: Woser
A great cry, a noise that can be produced only by those who live in the grasslands, sounded from the Tibetan lands in March 2008, shocking the world. The Chinese media called it “the wolf howling”
TYC Hunger Strike: Day 5 without food and water
The six hunger strikers in the Indian Capital are low on health but high on grit and determination. As they enter Day 5 of the TYC organized fast without food and water, physical limitations
Expert urges China visitors to encrypt data
China’s blocking of Web sites has embarrassed the International Olympic Committee, but a computer security expert said on Thursday that visitors to Beijing also needed to protect their data from prying eyes.