Photo by Tibet Will Be Free.
[This post has been updated as of 1:15 a.m. EST on 3.9.09.]
Here are the Tibet-related headlines for today:
The Agence France-Presse reports that over 1,000 people gathered in London this weekend for “a demonstration against Chinese rule in Tibet ahead of next week’s 50th anniversary of a failed uprising which prompted the Dalai Lama’s exile.” (The photo above shows some of those demonstrators.)
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in an interview with Taiwan’s Formosa TV, said that he is in “very good” physical condition and reiterated that it is up to the Tibetan people to decide “if there should be the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.”
The Telegraph reports on the Tibetan Youth Congress, Students for a Free Tibet, and other exile groups who think that His Holiness is “too soft” in his dealings with the Chinese.
The Associated Press continues to report on China’s tightening security in the run up to the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa.
As part of this coverage, the AP tells us that Chinese authorities detained a nun and another woman in Ganzi, Sichuan Province, for handing out leaflets “calling for religious freedom, the release of prisoners and respect for human rights for all Tibetans.”
And this via Barbara O’Brien over at Barbara’s Buddhism Blog: According to a report in the Times Online, Chinese authorities are planning to detail 109 Buddhist monks from the Quinghai Province’s Lutsang Monastery and subject them to “political reeducation.”
The Far Eastern Economic Review reports on human rights violations in Tibet, and focuses on one egregious case in particular.
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