The University of Massachusetts Boston has been urged in a letter from students, professors and alumni, along with outside advocates to shut down the China’s Confucius Institute that operates on its campus. The center is openly known to be overseen by the Chinese government and it is accused of promoting censorship abroad and undermining...
Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
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University Institute Accused of Curbing Democracy on Campus
University of Massachusetts Boston students, alumni, and professors protested earlier this month, accusing the university’s Confucius Institute of “undermining human rights” initiatives, according to the Boston Globe. The Confucius Institute is a worldwide non-profit public education organization based in Beijing, China. Its parent organization is the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China...
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Apple China removes VPN Apps that bypass Chinese censorship
DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 2: Against the back drop of China’s intensifying Internet censorship drive, tech giant Apple has removed many Virtual Private Network (VPN) Apps from its Chinese App store over the weekend. BBC which cited data from www.aso100.com, reported that more than 60 VPNs were no longer available in Apple’s China App Store. In January,...
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The high-tech war on Tibetan communication
The Chinese digital security state versus a small exile community.
June 5, 2017July 9, 2019
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June 5, 2017November 22, 2017
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New People Power Series: Beijing Smog Comic
In honor of yesterday’s anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and all the activists who struggled for rights and democracy in China then and now, we are launching a new “People Power” series this week to celebrate and learn from grassroots campaign victories in China and around the world. Read and share the new comic “Beijing Smog,” which tells...
April 7, 2017November 22, 2017
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བོད་མིར་རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་སྐོར་རི་མོའི་སྒྲུང་དེབ་གསར་པ་སྟེ། མེ་ཤོད་ཀྱི་ནོར་བུ།
རང་གི་ཕ་ཡུལ་དུ་ཤིང་ནགས་གཅོད་བྲེགས་འགོག་རྒྱུ་ཐག་གཅོད་བྱེད་མཁན་མེ་ཤོད་གྲོང་གསེབ་ཀྱི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་ཆེ་བའི་མཚོ་མོ་དང་། གྲོང་གསེབ་པ་གཞན་གྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀློགས། གྲོང་གསེབ་པ་ཚོས་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་པོ་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་ཀྱིས་ལོ་ཧྲིལ་པོ་གཅིག་གི་རིང་ལ་ཤིང་ནགས་གཅོད་བྲེག་བྱེད་སའི་བགྲོད་ལམ་དེ་བཀག་པ་རེད། མེ་ཤོད་ཀྱི་ནོར་བུའི་སྐོར་འདི་ནས་ཀློག་གནང་ཞུ།
April 7, 2017November 22, 2017
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New Tibetan Victories Comic: The Jewels of Mesho
Read the gripping story of Tsomo and other courageous villagers of Mesho, who put a stop to logging of their forests. Using their own bodies, the villagers blockaded the logging road, preventing access for an entire year. “Thanks to the courage of our villagers, we saved this land from further harm. We uncovered the lies,...
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China surveillance: WeChat users’ messages on Dalai Lama, Tibet disappear
The Tibet Action Institute found that the keyword combination “Kalachakra + Dalai Lama + Tibetan” was blocked in group chats between users in India and China.
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Report finds extensive censorship of Tibet related posts on China’s top video sharing site
DHARAMSHALA, DEC. 1: Tibet related contents on a prominent video sharing site in China is being censored “aggressively and systematically” in order to limit awareness and information on Tibet and Tibetan related issues, according to a new research paper by the US based Tibet Action Institute. “Although content blockage on issues related to Tibet by...