ESPN (Associated Press): https://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/31459936/full-blown-boycott-pushed-2022-winter-olympics-beijing Groups alleging human rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations. A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a...
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བོད་པ་བཙན་བྱོལ་བའི་དྲྭ་རྒྱ་ཁག་ལ་འཇབ་རྒོལ་བྱུང་བ། Tibetans targeted with a malicious Firefox extension
༄༅།། ཉེ་ཆར་ཨ་རིའི་དྲྭ་རྒྱའི་བདེ་འཇགས་དང་འཐབ་ཇུས་ཚོང་ལས་ཁང་གིས་འདོན་སྤེལ་བྱས་པའི་སྙན་ཐོ་དེར་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ལ་འབྲེལ་བ་ཡོད་པའི་དྲྭ་རྒྱའི་འཇབ་རྒོལ་ཚན་པ་ཞིག་གིས་དྲྭ་ལམ་གྱི་འཐབ་ཇུས་གསར་པ་ཞིག་བརྒྱུད་ནས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དྲྭ་རྒྱ་ཁག་ལ་འཇབ་རྒོལ་ཚབས་ཆེན་ཞིག་བྱས་འདུག་ཅེས་བཀོད་ཡོད་ཅིང་། ཨ་རིའི་ཉམས་ཞིབ་ཁང་དེས་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་བསྟི་གནས་ཁང་ངམ། བོད་ཀྱི་གློག་ཀླད་ཛ་དྲག་གྲ་སྒྲིག་ཚན་ཁག་ལ་འབྲེལ་བ་བྱས་ཏེ་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཚོགས་སྡེ་ཁག་ལ་འཕྲད་བཞིན་པའི་དྲྭ་རྒྱའི་འཇབ་རྒོལ་གསར་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་རྣམས་གསལ་སྟོན་གནང་འདུག
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