Chinese veteran politicians call for reform
A group of 23 Communist Party elders in China has written a letter calling for an end to the country’s restrictions on freedom of speech. The letter says freedom of expression is promised in the Chinese constitution but not allowed in practice. They want people to be able to freely...
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China tightens control of Tibetan monasteries, blames “separatists”
China plans to tighten control over Tibetan Buddhist monasteries to reduce the influence of the exiled Dalai Lama and other ‘internal and external separatist forces,’ according to a government notice seen on Monday. The State Administration of Religious Affairs issued the ‘Management measure for Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and temples’ to...
(continue)Wife Detained After Visiting Nobel Winner
The wife of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, was allowed to meet with her husband on Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is serving an 11-year sentence, but she was then escorted back to Beijing and placed under house arrest, a human rights group...
(continue)Chinese press angry over dissident’s Nobel Peace Prize
China’s official news media has aired its anger over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo on 8 October, with editorials describing Liu as a “criminal” and accusing the prize committee of attempting to “humiliate” the country. Some newspapers in Hong Kong were upset at...
(continue)Liu Xiaobo: 20 years of activism
In his time Liu Xiaobo has been a political activist, author, university professor and an annoyance to the Chinese Communist Party. He has now been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, despite fierce opposition from the Chinese government. Outside the country of his birth, he is known as one of China’s...
(continue)Nobel Peace Prize awarded to China dissident Liu Xiaobo
Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been named the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Making the announcement in Oslo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel committee said Mr Liu was “the foremost symbol” of the human rights struggle in China. Several countries including the US, France and Germany,...
(continue)1989 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader
His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso is the traditional politial and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was recognized at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of his predecessor the thirteenth Dalai Lama, and thus an incarnation of the Buddha of...
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