Posts filed under: Media Centre

Media Centre

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

Human #Rights365 = Human Rights for All

10 December 2014 To contact one of the spokespeople email campaigns@tibetnetwork.org or call: Tenzin Dorjee: +1 (646) 724 0748 Yang Jianli: +1 (857)472-9039 Enghebatu Togochog: +1 (917) 698-4367 Dolkun Isa (Rebiya Kadeer contact): +49 89 54321999   Read in Chinese... Read More

Joint Tibet Group letter urges APEC leaders to raise the Tibet with Xi Jinping during Summit in Beijing

24 October 2014 Re:  Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting Dear leaders of APEC member states [1], The upcoming annual APEC Leaders’ Meeting will take place in Beijing while the images of unprecedented pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong remain at... Read More

Tibetan National Congress Applauds Cancellation of Nobel Peace Summit in South Africa and Welcomes Relocation of Venue

MEDIA ADVISORY 2nd October 2014 Nobel Peace Summit cancelled as six Nobel Laureates boycott after host country denies a visa to the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan National Congress suggests Rome as an alternate venue. The 14th World Summit of Nobel... Read More

We Stand With You: A Statement of Solidarity with Hong Kong Protesters from a Tibetan, Uyghur, Southern Mongolian and Chinese

Contacts: email solidarityhongkong@gmail.com or call Tenzin Dorjee +1 (646) 724 0748, Yang Jianli +1 (857)472-9039, Enghebatu Togochog +1 (917) 698-4367, Dolkun Isa (Rebiya Kadeer contact) +49 89 54321999, Teng Biao + 1 617 396 6099 October 3 2014 As a Tibetan, Uyghur,... Read More

Solidarity message to the people of Hong Kong from the worldwide Tibet movement

1 October 2014 Contacts: Alison Reynolds, International Tibet Network: +44 7711 843884 (UK) Tenzin Jigdal, International Tibet Network: + 91 98 82 255516 (India) Global Members of International Tibet Network [1], a coalition of 180 Tibet-related campaign organisations, stand in... Read More

Tibet activists outraged at life sentence for Uighur academic Ilham Tohti

Tibet campaigners expressed outrage at the life sentence handed to Uighur academic Ilham Tohti today in Urumqi for “separatism”.  Ilham Tohti, winner of the 2014 PEN Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award [1], is a prominent human rights defender who was... Read More

Tibet campaigners urge BRICS leaders to jointly tackle the crisis in Tibet

For Immediate Release: 14 July 2014 For Press Contacts see below. [Brazilia, Durban, Moscow, New Delhi] On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s second BRICS summit, Tibet campaigners based in Brazil, South Africa, Russia and India [1] deliver an... Read More

BRICS Summit 2014: Joint Tibet Group Letter to Leaders

1310 Fillmore Street, Suite 401 San Francisco, CA 94115 United States [Read in Portuguese] [Read in Tibetan] 11 July 2014 Dear President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil; President Vladimir Putin; Prime Minister Narendra Modi; President Jacob Zuma We are writing to you... Read More

Global Tibet movement deplores Spanish Court’s decision to shelve ground-breaking Tibet lawsuit; disdain China’s premature thanks

For Immediate Release, 27 June 2014 Contacts: Alison Reynolds, International Tibet Network Secretariat, + 44 7711 843884. To contact Alan Cantos, Comité de Apoyo al Tíbet, please email alan.cantos@ainco.es   The International Tibet Network [1] is deeply disappointed that Spain... Read More