Tenzin Choedak spent much of his life cut off from his family. He fled his native Tibet as a young boy in 1991 and traveled to India with his uncle, amid the growing infringement of cultural and political rights at home. At the time, landline phones were the only available means of communication, but pricey...
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RFA: བོད་ཕྱི་ནང་གི་བོད་མིའི་བར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་དང་སྐད་འཕྲིན། Wechat and its significance to Tibetans inside and outside Tibet
རྒྱ་ནག་གིས་བཟོས་པའི་འཕྲིན་གཏོང་མཉེན་ཆས་མ་ལག་མང་པོ་ཞིག་རྒྱ་གར་ནང་སྒོ་བརྒྱབས་པ་དང་མཚུངས། བོད་ཕྱི་ནང་གི་བོད་མིའི་བར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གྱི་མ་ལག་སྐད་འཕྲིན་Wechat སྒོ་བརྒྱབས་པའི་དགེ་སྐྱོན་སྐོར། Discussion about Chinese app Wechat and it’s significance to Tibetans inside and outside Tibet
Technology Analysts, Developers, Journalists, and Activists Challenge Apple’s Complicity with Chinese Government Censorship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 22, 2020 CONTACT: Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute |+91 98824 07365 | [email protected] Technology Analysts, Developers, Journalists, and Activists Challenge Apple’s Complicity with Chinese Government Censorship The first-ever Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference (WWDAACC) kicked off this morning, hacking questions on human rights & censorship for China’s App Store...
Technology, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression Activists & Prominent Artists to Expose Apple Censorship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 18, 2020 CONTACT: Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute |+91 98824 07365 | [email protected] Pema Doma, Students for a Free Tibet | +1 617-792-3606 | [email protected] “Freedom of Expression Concert” & “Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference” to Coincide with Apple’s Famed Developers Conference [New York / Dharamsala] – As Apple...
Press Statement: Uncover Beijing’s Coronavirus Agenda
For Immediate Release: 8 April, 2020 Contacts: John Jones, Free Tibet, UK | +44 (0)777 068 1938 | [email protected] Mandie McKeown, Tibet Network | +44 (0)7748 158 618 | [email protected] Dorjee Tseten, Students for a Free Tibet, [Tibetan, English] +1 (646) 753 3889 | [email protected] Uncover Beijing’s Coronavirus Agenda: Tibetans, Uyghurs and Chinese rights experts...
Live Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda
Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda: Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Chinese activists speak up WHAT: On World Health Day, Tuesday 7 April 2020, a panel of Chinese, Tibetan, and Uyghur rights leaders joined by Chinese-focused human rights experts conducted an online media briefing on the People’s Republic of China’s escalating repressive agenda in the age of...
40.6% of Apple Shareholders want Apple to do better on freedom of expression
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Dorjee Tseten | [email protected] | +1 (646) 753-3889 Sondhya Gupta [email protected] / Jon Date [email protected] +447533011983 40.6% of shareholders defy Apple management in vote on China cyber surveillance Today, 40.6% of Apple shareholders voted in favour of policies to uphold and promote freedom of expression at the company’s shareholder meeting. The...