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Now that the five American activists who staged a protest on Mount Everest calling for Tibetan independence are safely in Nepal, they are telling the story of their detention to the press. SFT’s deputy director Tenzin Dorjee told Radio Free Asia about their repeated questioning and Chinese interrogators threatening violence against them.
They didn’t ask us […]

China expels five activists detained after Everest protest

Five Tibetan independence activists were released early Friday morning by Chinese authorities in Tibet. Tenzin Dorjee (pictured above before the protest), Kirsten Westby, Laurel Mac Sutherlin and Shannon Service were detained on Wednesday for protesting China’s plans to take the Olympic torch over Mount Everest and through Tibet […]

Cross posted at Tibet Will Be Free
We at SFT have spent the last couple of days working extensively to support the activists who staged an historic protest on Mount Everest against China’s occupation of Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games and help tell their story to the international press. But as we work to spread […]

Nearly two days after they were detained at Mount Everest base camp for an unprecedented protest against the Beijing 2008 Olympics, four American Tibet activists remain missing. One American eyewitness to the protest has arrived safely in Nepal. Tenzin Dorjee, the first known exile Tibetan to stage a protest inside Tibet, was detained along with […]

KPIX TV of San Francisco ran an in-depth report on the free Tibet activists who unfurled a banner calling for Tibetan independence on Mount Everest Wednesday morning. The piece focused on Bay Area residents Shannon Service and Laurel Mac Sutherlin and included interviews by SFT’s campaigns coordinator Kate Woznow, among others. You can watch the […]

The International Olympic Committee today announced that it had given approval to the Beijing Olympic torch route, which will run through Tibet and up Mount Everest.
Students for a Free Tibet is deeply disappointed that the IOC has given a stamp of approval to China’s politicization of the Olympic Games. The IOC has no business bolstering […]

Check out this video of the free Tibet Olympics protest on Mount Everest Wednesday morning. It contains newly released footage of the demonstration, including Tenzin Dorjee singing the Tibetan national anthem and lighting a Tibetan Olympic torch. Laurel Mac Sutherlin also is on screen giving a stirring speech about why he is demonstrating for […]

This short clip was linked in the previous post on the banner unfurled by free Tibet activists on Mount Everest. Tenzin Dorjee, deputy director of Students for a Free Tibet, talks about what he is doing and why he has chosen to go to Mount Everest to raise his voice for Tibetan independence.

Here’s a transcript […]

Tibet Activists Demonstrate at Base Camp While Chinese Team Attempts Olympic Torch Ascent
Three Tibetan independence activists, including one Tibetan-American, were detained by Chinese authorities today after demonstrating at Mount Everest’s main base camp in Tibet, unfurling a banner reading “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008” in English, and “Free Tibet” written in Tibetan and […]