The Associated Press reports that “a Chinese court on Wednesday handed down death sentences to two Tibetans accused of starting deadly fires in last year’s anti-government riots in Tibet.”
In the wake of the recent news about computer-hacking linked to China, Peter Lee writes about their government’s decade-long “game of whack-a-mole to control the burgeoning channels of digital communication between Tibetan dissidents inside Tibet and in the Tibetan diaspora” for the Asia Times Online.
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that “a leading campaigner for Tibetan independence delivered a speech in Hong Kong Monday after an earlier engagement was postponed following objections from Beijing officials.”
