Action archive 2008

Urgent Campaign Archive 2008

In 2008, protests swept across the Tibetan plateau; the largest uprising for fifty years. Many of Free Tibet's urgent actions concentrated on events on the ground in Tibet, and successes included Gordon brown caving in to pressure to meet the Dalai Lama and filmmaker Golog Jigme being released, stating his treatment improved when campaigning began.
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Urgent Campaigns 2008

- 11/01/08 Gordon Brown: Talk Tibet in China
- 23/02/08 Tell Gordon Brown to meet the Dalai Lama
- 05/03/08 Write to the BBC concerning 'A Year in Tibet'
- 13/03/08 Britain must condemn the crackdown in Tibet
- 07/03/08 Act on the current situation in Tibet
- 19/03/08 Journalists must be allowed back into Tibet
- 10/04/08 Stop the torch going to Tibet!
- 02/05/08 Outrageous sentences follow show trial

Urgent Campaigns 2008

- 12/05/08 Brown must meet the Dalai Lama at Downing St.
- 30/05/08 IOC must end silence on media blackout in Tibet
- 19/07/08: Adak Kalgyam sentenced for 'splittism'
- 12/08/08 Brown must speak up for Tibet
- 24/09/08 Tibetan filmmakers arrested
- 17/10/08: UPDATE: Filmmaker released
- 30/10/08 British Government must show more support
- 27/11/08 Britain must explain its change of position