Dalai Lama met Bruni-Sarkozy

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Yesterday August 22, the French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy met with the Dalai Lama (as announced …). What they discussed and how the puplic response is reported in today’s news.
Le Monde (France):
Cet entretien aura sûrement une tonalité politique alors que le dalaï-lama a dénoncé jeudi la poursuite de la répression chinoise au Tibet, [...]

Free the Beijing 6

The Chinese Dictators show their true face:
BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing police said Thursday it had handed out 10-day detention terms to six foreigners believed by an overseas activist group to be pro-Tibet campaigners involved in Olympic protests this week.
SFT’s Statement on the Sentencing
These individuals were in Beijing to amplify Tibetan voices calling for freedom and [...]

Pro-Tibetian Activists arrested

Human Rights Watch China reports on August 19th, 2008:
Two Beijing Residents Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor After Applying for Permits to Demonstrate in Olympics “Protest Zones”
Human Rights in China has learned that Beijing petitioners Wu Dianyuan (吴殿元) and Wang Xiuying (王秀英) have been ordered to serve a one-year term of Reeducation-Through-Labor (RTL) after repeatedly [...]

Students for a free Tibet

A Tibetan’s Protest in Beijing
Padma-Dolma Fielitz, a 21-year-old Tibetan woman from Germany, and a Canadian man protested near Tiananmen Square on August 10, 2008. They held the Tibetan national flag aloft before being accosted by Chinese security personnel. As Chinese security tried to wrest the flags away, Padma-Dolma was seen being dragged roughly across [...]

Bruni-Sarkozy meets Dalai Lama

Sarkozy meets the Dalai Lama … not but yes but no but yes but no … but Carla Bruni-Sarkozy yes!
AFP
August 10, 2008
PARIS (AFP) — The Dalai Lama kicks off Tuesday an 11-day visit to
France that threatened to spark a crisis between Paris and Beijing,
until President Nicolas Sarkozy quashed speculation he would meet the
Tibetan spiritual leader.
Planned [...]

Meet Angel Heredia, the dealer of the Olympics

Here is another reason to boycott the Olympics, and actually fight against the whole current professional sport system.
This is the story of Angel Heredia: Read about his story in the New York Times, another piece in The Times and here is a very interesting interview in German weekly Der Spiegel.

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