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Activists reject IOC’s assurances on #Beijing2022 “naïve, inexplicable and alarming”

MEDIA RELEASE: 29 July 2015 Human rights activists reject IOC’s latest assurances on Beijing Olympics bid as “naïve, inexplicable and alarming” IOC letter to campaigners expresses “confidence” in China’s promises on human rights Human rights campaigners have reacted with outrage to a... Read More

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 Bid: Joint Open Letter to International Olympic Committee

Read in Spanish As Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and Han Chinese we join together to urge you, International Olympic Committee members, not to award another Olympic Games to China. All of the people we represent have suffered as a result... Read More

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche: Death in a Chinese Prison

Tibet movement mourns the passing of an innocent Tibetan hero, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who has died in a Chinese prison. International Tibet Network calls on world governments to help the family recover his body, and press China for a full... Read More

“No more Bloody Games” – Young Tibetan activists stage IOC protest as Beijing makes pitch for 2022 Olympics

10 June 2015: Lausanne: Activists of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) protested at the Lausanne Palace Hotel, where representatives of the Chinese Government and Beijing Olympic Committee were presenting their case for Beijing to be awarded the 2022... Read More

Campaigners call for urgent action for Tibetan torture victim

Tenzin Delek, a highly respected Tibetan buddhist monk, is known to be in extremely poor health with a serious heart condition. 25 June 2015; For Immediate Release On the eve of the United Nations Day in Support of the Victims... Read More

Tibet campaigners launch global petition against Beijing Olympics bid; accuse IOC of “Skating on Thin Ice”

MEDIA RELEASE 1 June 2015 [For Immediate Use] Tibet campaigners launch global petition against Beijing Olympics bid; accuse IOC of “Skating on Thin Ice” IOC Evaluation Commission accepts China’s assurances regarding human rights but gives no details of “written assurances”... Read More

Flames in Tibet: Five Years of Resistance and Repression

On 27 February 2009 Tapey, a young Tibetan monk, walked out into the street in Ngaba carrying a home-drawn Tibetan flag and a photograph of the Dalai Lama. He doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire, shouting slogans... Read More

Tibet Campaigners call on China for the urgent release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche on medical parole

Read in Spanish 7 April 2015; For Immediate Release Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly respected Tibetan buddhist monk, is known to be in extremely poor health with a serious heart condition.   Contact: Tenzin Jigdal, jigdal@tibetnetwork.org, + 91 9882 255516... Read More

Tibet campaigners warn IOC that giving 2022 Games to Beijing will be “making the same mistake twice”

 MEDIA RELEASE 19 March 2015 [For Immediate Use] Tibet campaigners warn IOC that giving 2022 Games to Beijing will be “making the same mistake twice” Report submitted before IOC’s China visit stresses failure of 2008 Games to improve human rights... Read More

Beijing’s Bid to host 2022 Winter Olympic Games | Media Statement

Media Release from International Tibet Network and Free Tibet  16 February 2015: Immediate Release Alistair Currie of Free Tibet, London, said: “In 2008, worldwide attention on repression in Tibet and the international campaign by Tibet activists served notice to the International Olympic... Read More