Tibet News (8.10.09)

by Danny Fisher

Image via Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Here’s today’s Tibet-related news:

  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama does an interview with the BBC that “may breathe new life into the deadlocked talks between him and the government in Beijing.” The news service offers a breakdown of the interview here. You can also watch the interview at YouTube.
  • The Associated Press reports that “a U.N. panel on racism has questioned China over its treatment of ethnic minorities in the fractious regions of Xinjiang and Tibet.”
  • The Agence France-Presse reports that “China said Monday that it has released more than 1,200 detainees held over unrest in Tibet last year while more than 700 people are still being held following last month’s riots in Xinjiang.”
  • Radio Free Asia reports that Tashi Rabten, editor of the banned literary magazine Shar Dungri, who has not been seen since July 26, has been detained by authorities in China’s western Sichuan province, according to a Tibetan source.