BEIJING — In their latest confrontation with pro-Tibetan protesters during the Olympics, Chinese authorities arrested five Americans on Tuesday after they spelled out “Free Tibet” with blue L.E.D. lights near the National Stadium. Three other people, including a New York artist who fashions giant displays with lasers on buildings, were detained for a separate protest.
[August 20, 2008. Source :nytimes.com]
NEW YORK—Over 60 people on bikes set out to raise awareness about the situation in Tibet during the Beijing Olympics. Organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress and volunteers, the bike journey began at 10 a.m. in Columbus Circle, and continued towards Battery Park before reaching the final destination at the Chinese Consulate on West 42nd Street.
[August 18, 2008 source :epochtimes.com]
Tibetan rights campaigners staged a daring protest in Beijing Friday when they rappelled down the half-built new headquarters of state broadcaster China Central Television to unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner over an Olympic Games billboard.
[August 18, 2008 Source :variety.com]
BEIJING—Five US activists and an American graffiti artist were detained in Beijing on Tuesday after they displayed a “Free Tibet” banner near an Olympics venue, says a pro-Tibet group.
[August 20, 2008 source :epochtimes.com]
Beijing - More than 40 Olympic athletes have downloaded a Tibet album called "Songs for Tibet" to show solidarity with the Himalayan people's struggle for more freedom, according to a Tibetan rights group.
China has stepped up repression in its ethnic Tibetan regions to prevent any protests during the Beijing Olympics, an activist group said.
[August 19, 2008 Source :tvnz.co.nz]
Records are made and broken in the Olympics. A medal more, then Michael Phelps will hold the maximum number of gold medals in the history of the Olympics as an individual athlete. It is truly phenomenal when a person can push his/her body beyond normalcy and break or make records in sporting activities, displaying the triumph of the human spirit.
[August 19, 2008 source :TYC]
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Wednesday urged France to respect China's concern over Tibet-related issues.
"We hope that France would prudently handle related important and sensitive issues," Qin told a regular press conference.
[August 20, 2008 source :CTIC]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police detained about 200 Tibetan exiles who tried to march to the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu on Tuesday protesting against China's crackdown in their homeland in March, police said.
[August 19, 2008 Source :reuters]
BEIJING (AFP) — China has detained an American artist before he carried out a pro-Tibet protest involving a laser beam projected onto a Beijing building at the Olympics, an activist group said Wednesday.
[August 20, 2008 Source :AFP]
URUMQI, China (AP) — As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.
248 Tibet protesters arrested when they protest in front of visa office of the Chinese embassy in the Nepali capital on 19/08/08
(Photo by Lhuboom:RFA/Nepal)
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