It is unrealistic to expect the same freedom of religion to exist in Iran or Egypt that exists in the U.S., but that doesn't mean we should be a nation where the persecution of Christians around the world is ignored by the media while Johnny Depp being named "Sexiest Man Aliv …

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Enraged nomads swooped into this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, storming a Chinese police compound, setting fire to police cars and forcing security forces to flee.

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The passing of the Dalai Lama's elder brother Thubten Jigme Norbu represents a blow to the Free Tibet Movement as one of its greatest champions passes.

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A representative of Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that 6 American bloggers and pro-Tibet activists who went missing in Beijing for days after being detained by authorities have re-appeared -- and that authorities have given them a sentence of ten days in jail each f …

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Free Art & Technology Lab member, James Powderly, is currently being detained in China. As of 10:30 AM EST, he has been detained for almost 48 hours with still no word on his condition or whereabouts.

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It's never OK to use improper copyright claims to take down legitimate, non-infringing content, but such takedowns are particularly galling when they are timed to directly interfere with the impact of a political message.

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ITV News journalist John Ray has been arrested in Beijing while covering a Free Tibet protest. Mr Ray was released soon after the incident at the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, near the National Stadium.

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China sets Tibetan monk alight in anti-protest protest

In response to the hoopla and protests regarding China's human rights record in the run-up to the Olympics, the Chinese protested by publicly burning a Tibetan Buddhist monk yesterday, SteveHouse News Wire has learned.

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Tibet in Review

Tibet is an elevated spiritual geographically independent part of the political state known as China.

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Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

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Protesters in several Chinese cities have gathered to demand a boycott of French products and denounce campaigns for Tibetan independence.

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Protesters have hung pro-Tibet slogans around the necks of China's Terracotta Warriors at a London exhibition. Placards stating "boycott the Chinese Olympics" and "stop killing Tibetans" were put on the British Museum models.

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Much confusion was generated in an attempt by local authorities to prevent a re-run of the Torch runs in Paris and London where some Free Tibet demonstrators were bent on physically disrupting the torch run.

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In keeping with a principled and balanced journalistic view, Newsweek presents the answer to my earlier question about the skewed viewpoints of the Tibetan situation. One only need look at the author of the article who hopes to speak sense to the Chinese.

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International Olympic Committee chairman Jacques Rogge is now expressing increasing concern as "The torch relay has been targeted." while the IOC called " for a rapid peaceful resolution in Tibet." Whatever that means.

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From the Great Wall of China to the Golden Gate Bridge, the Free Tibet movement doesn't lack creativity in their PR efforts to get their message out ahead of the Olympic Torch visit on Wednesday, April 9th touchdown in San Francisco.

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It's interesting to catch the contradictions within the Tibetan community as it relates to the Free Tibet issues. Notice in this interview the apparent contradictions even in the XIV Dalai Lama's own perspective:

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As expected, the well orchestrated Free Tibet Coalition has pulled off another public relations move to bring to the fore the issue of Tibetan Independence or its' autonomy? Which is it? All of this made possible by the prominent rise of the Dalai Lama as a "man of peace." Is it  …

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Some graphic photos and description of the massacres going on in Tibet at this time. I guess that the bumper stickers never quite got the message to the Chinese government. WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEATH

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Protests against China's rights record and crackdown in Tibet disrupted ceremonies on Monday to light the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games.

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China has acknowledged for the first time that anti-government protests have spread outside Tibet, and announced arrests following the riots in Lhasa. Thousands of armed police have flooded into the provinces and neighbouring Qinghai province amid sporadic demonstrations.

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Despite measures like incapacitating internet servers, blocking foreign web sites reporting on the situation in Tibet, jamming the broadcasts of Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America and blocking overseas telephone calls, the Chinese have not yet been able to enforce a total i …

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Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy's 2007 annual report finds cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions inside Tibet increased almost threefold compared to 2006 indicating a worsening of human rights situation in Tibet ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

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...True, the Dalai Lama is no ordinary scholar and teacher; he is the living symbol of the Buddhist faith. It seems that Beijing's cadres fear his moral authority and do not want the international community to examine their record in Tibet, because they have a lot to hide.

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