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 | China Is Trying a Tibetan Filmmaker for Subversion
by Andrew Jacobs, New York Times
October 30th, 2009
A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad and distributed on the Internet and at film festivals around the world. |
| China Executes Tibetan Protesters
by Jonathan Watts, Guardian (UK)
October 22nd, 2009
Chinese authorities have carried out their first executions of Tibetans in connection with the deadly riots that swept Lhasa last year, according to exile groups. |
| China Executes Four Tibetans In Lhasa Over Spring 2008 Protest
by TCHRD , tchrd.org
October 22nd, 2009
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has received confirmed information from reliable sources that Lobsang Gyaltsen, Loyak, Penkyi and an unnamed Tibetan were executed on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 under the supervision of the Lhasa Municipality Intermediate People’s Court for their alleged involvement in last year’s mass protest in the Tibetan capital. |
| Obama Aide Denies Retreat on China Rights
by Matt Spetalnick, Reuters
October 21st, 2009
A top aide to Barack Obama denied on Wednesday the U.S. president snubbed the Dalai Lama or retreated on human rights in China by delaying a meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader earlier this month. |
| MP calls for 'mayhem in Beijing'
Herald Sun
A PROMINENT Euro MP has called for "mayhem in Beijing" during the Olympic Games, with a boycott of the opening ceremony and high-profile protests over the Chinese crackdown in Tibet. |
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