Protests aplenty ahead of Olympics
The Olympic Games are a year away, but protests have already begun from groups who want the event to change China. Journalists are pushing for more press freedom, and Tibet
Chinese authorities impose deadline to end Tibetan Protest
Local authorities have imposed a deadline in an effort to clear a growing protest by Tibetan nomads outside government offices in southwestern China. Protesters have issued
Unlucky start to 2008 Games countdown
FREE Tibet activists on the Great Wall, a barrage of critical human rights reports, a shroud of smog over Beijing – China’s government must surely have imagined a more
Tibet asks to send its own team to Beijing
In a move sure to anger Beijing, which annexed Tibet in 1950, Tibetans in exile have formed the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Tibet and have written to International Olympic
Tibetan Protest Swells in China’s Sichuan
A protest by Tibetan nomads outside local government offices in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan is growing, with more nomads arriving following the arrest of one of their