News Updates


British ballet dedicated to people of Tibet is pulled from China expo:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/aug/31/china-tibet-ballet-wyer


2010 Election: Local candidates' views.

Our Deeside representative asks a number of local candidates what they think the UK government should do as regards the China/Tibet issue. Responses here.

China's human-rights record worsens in 2009:

China  is now in 12th position among the world's worst human-rights offender countries -five positions higher than in 2008- says this report in  The Telegraph

CCP executes four Tibetans

In defiance of international pressure to end capital punishment

Story: http://www.freetibet.org/newsmedia/22102009

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR TIBETAN NEW YEAR

This Tibetan New Year, no celebratory meal.

The Tibetan New Year, Losar, is usually celebrated with traditional banquets, dancing and singing. This Losar, however,Tibetans have decided there will be no such celebrations, as they remember the continuing Chinese crackdown on Tibet following last year's protests: over 200 Tibetans, including children were killed, more than 6000 detained, and the whereabouts of about 1000 still remain unknown. In sympathy and support for Tibetans, Tibet Support Group Grampian cancelled their usual celebratory meal, and marked Losar by holding a candlelight vigil in St Nicholas Street, Aberdeen, on Thursday evening 26 February. The vigil was well supported, and nearly 145 people signed a petition.