Recent press releases


July 1 2009: China delays web filtering software

May 29 2009: TGIE reports six Tibetan women shot during protest in Tawu

May 13 2009: EU must condemn Tibetan death sentences

April 21 2009: Fifth Tibetan sentenced to death by Chinese court

April 8 2009: China sentences two to death over alleged role in starting fires in Lhasa protests

March 30 2009: Free Tibet urges world leaders to take concerted action on Tibet with President Hu at G20

March 27 2009: 'Serf Emancipation Day' exposes political bankruptcy of Chinese regime in Tibet

March 22 2009: Eyewitnesses report over a thousand Tibetans protest in Qinghai after monk disappears in river

March 20 2009: Shocking video footage from inside Tibet exposes uses of brutal & excessive force in March 2008

March 16 2009: Tibetans continue to protest in Lithang despite arrival of 2,000 elite troops

March 10 2009: Three monks arrested in tense Kirti monastery

March 9 2009: UK Tibet supporters travel to parliament to demand action on Tibet


March 6 2009: London: Hundreds of Tibetan exiles and supporters to mark 50 years of Tibetan resistance

March 5 2009: Tibet under de facto martial law on eve of sensitive anniversary

February 27 2009: Monk shot by Chinese police after setting himself alight in tense Ngaba

February 25 2009: New images confirm China flooding Tibet with troops on eve of new year

February 17 2009: Hundreds of Tibetans protest over two days in restive Lithang County

January 31 2009: Premier wen must be held to account for the 1,000 missing in Tibet

January 30 2009: Free Tibet protests in Cambridge to mark Chinese Premier's arrival

January 29 2008: Gordon Brown must get though with Premier Wen on worsening crisis

January  9 2009: UK-China Human Rights Dialogue Failing to promote human rights in China and Tibet

December 10 2008: 'The Tortured Truth': Free Tibet's report on the worsening torture in Tibet

November 26 2008
 : EU-China summit latest victim of China's strong-arm diplomacy on Tibet

November 24 2008 : Tibetans back Dalai Lama at Special Meeting

November 21 2008 : Tibetan political prisoner speaks for ordinary Tibetans outside Special Meeting

November 21 2008
 : UN issues scathing indicement on China's record on torture

November 14 2008 : Free Tibet letter to Foreign Secretary on Britain's change of position on Tibet

November 10 2008
 : Humiliation for Britain's Tibet diplomacy as China rejects all calls for autonomy

November 7 2008
 : UN demands China explains its worsening torture record in Geneva meeting

November 6 2008
 : Britain rewrites history by recognising Tibet as part of China for the first time

October 29 2008
: British Foreign Secretary issues statement on upcoming round of Sino-Tibetan talks

October 28 2008
: Dalai Lama misrepresented: his office gives clarification

October 14 2008: Eight Tibetan monks sentenced to lengthy terms for alleged bomb blast

October 8 2008: Monk gives rare and compelling interview on torture

October 6 2008: Free Tibet tribute to Slovakian climber Pavle Kozjek

September 26 2008: Chinese armed police used spades and meat choppers to beat Tibetan monks

September 25 2008: Chinese armed police renew repression at Kirti monastery in Ngaba town

August 29 2008: Location of hundreds of Tibetans remains unknown on international day of the disappeared

August 22 2008: Free Tibet urges Brown to call for immediate investigation into Kandze lockdown

August 21 2008: Free Tibet welcomes Gordon Brown's comments on Tibet: urges him to go further

August 19 2008: Expansion of railway and resettlement of nomads designed to destroy Tibetan identity




For earlier press releases, please go to the archive section