One of SFT UK’s objectives, along with other Tibet groups, is to gain coverage for the Tibet issue in the world’s media. This can range from big international news agencies and publications to local and campus press and increasingly on the internet. The Chinese state invests huge resources into propaganda ‘news’, including the regime’s propagandist agency Xinhua. There will always be a range of opinions in countries which have a free press, but overall public opinion is in favour of Tibetan freedom. Below you will find links to recent articles about Tibet in the world’s press. You can find more up to date information on dedicated Tibet news sites like Phayul and by searching on Google news.
Stories from February 2012
NBC: Protesters rappel from memorial bridge, Washington (video)
GUARDIAN: Tibetan acts of self-immolation (video)
SKY: Monk sets himself on fire in protest (video)
TIBET POST: Worldwide Tibet vigil solidarity in UK
VOICE OF AMERICA: Tibet group releases photos of crackdown in Tibet
TELEGRAPH: China raises security to contain Tibet protests
Stories from January 2012
RADIO FREE ASIA: Video footage of protest in Dzamtang
CNN: reporters detained amind Chinese Tibet crackdown (Video)
VOICE OF AMERICA: Tibetan exile leaders on China’s violence against protesters
GLOBE & MAIL: China clamps down on budding Tibetan revolt
RADIO FREE ASIA: Thousands attend funeral
VOICE OF AMERICA: A Tibetan lama self-immolates in Golok Darlak
AFP: US ‘concerned’ about Tibetan self-immolations
Stories from December 2011
BBC: China plans tighter laws on film and cinema content
GUARDIAN: Another Tibetan self-immolates
Stories from November 2011
CHANNEL 4: Nun sets herself on fire (video)
TIBET EXPRESS: Second Tibetan nun sets herself on fire
TIBET POST: ‘Enough!’ campaign goes global
NEW INTERNATIONALIST: Stand up for Tibet! World leaders told
Stories from October 2011
PHAYUL: Fire spreads in Tibet: monk self immolates in Kardze
SKY NEWS: Tibetan woman dies after setting herself on fire
VOA: Tibetan woman sets herself on fire in Ngaba
TIBET EXPRESS: Police open fire on protesters in Serthar
SHADOW TIBET: Igniting the embers of independence
WASHINGTON POST: Two more ex-monks set themselves on fire
GUARDIAN: Tutu speaks out over Dalai Lama visa decision
TIBET POST: Tibetans fly flag & Dalai Lama picture in Serta
Stories from September 2011
RADIO FREE ASIA: Two more monks self-immolate REUTERS: China to pump $47 billion into Tibet by 2015
VOICE OF AMERICA: Nepal arrests 20 Tibetan teenagers
TIBET POST: US government reports severe repression of religious freedom in Tibet
PHAYUL: China sentences two more Tibetans
TIMES OF INDIA: Nepal refuses to grant amnesty to 10 Tibetan refugees
NEW YORK TIMES: Ancient wooly rhino points to Himalayas
CHINA DIALOGUE: Tibet’s mining menace
ZEE NEWS: Tibetan plateau facing environmental degradation
ENQUIRER: Sangay blasts China’s rule in Tibet as undemocratic and illegitimate
NEWSBISCUIT (spoof): Chinese hack into Stephen Hawking
TIBETAN REVIEW: Tibet’s longest serving prisoner seriously ill
VOICE OF AMERICA: Repression seperates Tibetan regions from rest of China
