Beijing launching hacking attacks on popular India-based Tibetan websites to find and jail Tibetan dissidents living in China.
Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
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An App to Shield Tibetans’ Texts From Prying Eyes
Monks protesting with Tibetan flags (image: SFTHQ) There may finally be a tool Tibetans can more safely use – at less risk of censorship or surveillance – to communicate with each other inside and outside of Tibet. Since YakChat launched in March, the new messenging app has taken Tibetan activists “by storm,” explained Nathan Freitas...
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Press Release – G8 Leaders Unite for Tibet
Unite for Tibet: Activists urge G8 leaders to “lead the way” at Northern Ireland summit New report exposes China’s hollow threats and calls for multilateral action on Tibet Contacts: US: Tenzin Jigme, International Tibet Network [English, Tibetan] +1 703 424 0015 Canada: Lhadon Tethong, Tibet Action Institute [English] +91 9882770392 or Kate Woznow, Students for...
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Tibet Action Institute holds awareness programme on online threats
The awareness programme, Targeted Online Threats in the Tibetan Community being held.
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Malware Arsenal Targets Tibetan Activists
Tibetan activists in China as well as those living in exile around the world are being targeted by dangerous malware that not only steals data from infected computers, but also has graduated to reporting location data from mobile devices for surveillance purposes. Tibetan activists in China as well as those living in exile around the...
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Mobile Phone Security Issues
safety information relating to the use of mobile phones inside Tibet. Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Tibet Action Institute.
June 24, 2012June 24, 2012
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James Lawson Award Honors Four Resisters
Nathan Schneider, June 23, 2011 On June 23rd, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict presented its first James Lawson Award for Nonviolent Achievement—or, rather, awards. The ceremony took place over lunch in a multi-purpose room at Tufts University, midway through ICNC’s annual, week-long Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict. All four Lawson Award...
February 9, 2012February 9, 2012
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Nathan & Guardian on CHOMP.FM
Listen to Nathan’s interview on the latest episode of Nadim Kobeissi’s CHOMP.FM – a weekly broadcast on information freedom, internet privacy and cyberculture. Listen and download the mp3.
November 15, 2011November 15, 2011
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NEW: Tibetan version of “Civil Resistance: A First Look” Released
Civil Resistance http://civilresistance.net/ Share this video with your friends, colleagues, and fellow organizers. Post it on your website and blogs, email it to your friends, add it to your online video libraries, and spread the knowledge of civil resistance.
November 15, 2011November 15, 2011
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