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Media Advisory |13 June 2019

Alphabet Inc. AGM |Drop Google Dragonfly TIBETAN, UYGHUR AND CHINESE ACTIVISTS URGE GOOGLE: “RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS, DON’T DO CHINA’S DIRTY WORK” LIVE ONLINE BRIEFING CONCERNING GOOGLE DRAGONFLY – THE CENSORED CHINA SEARCH ENGINE – AND THE COMPANY’S COMPLICITY IN CHINA’S... Read More

Google: Where is your response to Tibetan, Uyghur and Chinese rights activists?

[London] In May 2019 a coalition of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Chinese and ethical consumer activists sent a fourth follow up letter to Google management raising strong and legitimate concerns about the companies search engine project, Dragonfly. The coalition say it “fail... Read More

Hong Kong: solidarity with anti-extradition law protesters

UPDATE 15 June: International Tibet Network welcomes the news that the Hong Kong government has “suspended” its plan to allow extraditions to Mainland China. On 15 June Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam made the announcement, saying “I feel deep... Read More

30th Anniversary Tiananmen Square

Tibet Network Statement, 4 June 2019 On the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre we remember how 1989 became a year of widespread escalating repression by the ruling Communist Party of China.   In early March 1989 massive demonstrations in... Read More

10 March 1959: 60 Years of Occupation – 60 Years of Resistance

2019 marks numerous significant anniversaries; 30 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, 25 years since the Rwandan Genocide, 20 years since the 1999 East Timorese crisis, and 60 years since hundreds of thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of... Read More

UN Geneva: China Dismisses Key Human Rights Recommendations on Tibet

UN GENEVA: CHINA DISMISSES KEY HUMAN RIGHTS RECOMMENDATIONS ON TIBET Campaigners express shock at China’s claim to have “accepted and implemented” a call to resume dialogue on Tibet China has rejected 62 out of 346 recommendations made during the United... Read More

International Mother Language Day 2019 Tashi Wangchuk

Dear Chairman Xi, We are writing to you on International Mother Language Day, a day to embrace and enjoy cultural and linguistic diversity and multilingualism. Every year since 2000, this day has been marked around the world with the aim... Read More

Tashi Wangchuk to launch new appeal against his five-year sentence for ‘incitement to separatism”

Joint Statement: For Immediate Release 18 January 2019 Tibetan activist and political prisoner, Tashi Wangchuk, denied a visit with his lawyer ahead of the three year anniversary of his detention Tashi Wangchuk to launch new petition against his five-year sentence... Read More

Global protests outside Google offices builds pressure on company executives to officially announce the closure of Project Dragonfly

Friday, 18 January 2019 Media release, for immediate use To mark Internet Freedom Day, Tibetans, Tibet supporters and corporate campaigners gathered outside multiple Google offices in 10 countries, across 5 continents, to call on the Google to scrap its controversial... Read More

Google DropDragonfly | “We are at a critical moment”

January 18 2019 | Third letter to Google Management Ronan Harris, Managing Director, Google UK & Ireland Six Pancras Square
6 Pancras Rd
Kings Cross, London
N1C 4AG cc’d Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, Google Dear Mr Harris and Mr Pichai We write to you on... Read More