Rep. Tom Lantos (Democrat, CA-12) during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on China:
Last week, the Chinese detained four Americans protesting for freedom for the Tibetan people - a salient issue as next year’s Beijing Olympics approach. China has charted a route for the Olympic torch that brings it to the top of Mount […]

Renowned Tibetan writter Woeser informs us of truly frightening developments about the Chinese government’s efforts to control the Tibetan populace and create a culture of snitching and fear within Tibet. Here’s the English translation China Digital Times (original post here):
These two SMS messages are almost identical, they both came from the Tibet Public Security Border […]

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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 […]