Olympic press releases

Free Tibet Campaign has been doing intensive media work since early 2001 to draw attention to China’s appalling human rights record in Tibet.

You can follow the links below to read our press releases on the subject.

 

 

  

Press releases

- 20th June 2008: China imposes media blackout as torch reaches Tibet
- 11th June 2008: Free Tibet tells Coke UK: torture is the real thing in Tibet
- 10th June 2008: Free Tibet condemns IOC for not preventing rely in Tibet
- 8th May 2008: China attempts to prove bogus claim over Tibet with Everest torch run
- 1st May 2008: Tibet activists denied entry to Hong Kong
- 22nd April 2008: 153 Tibet groups warn Coca-Cola of humanitarian disaster in Tibet
- 9th April 2008: Stop the torch going through Tibet
- 8th April 2008: Identities of blue tracksuited guards revealed
- 4th April 2008: Joanna Lumley to attend large Tibet rally
- 20th March 2008: Tibet groups write to Olympic sponsors
- 6th March 2008: Tibetans demonstrate against China's Olympic Games
- 11th February 2008: Statement on attempts to restrict athletes' freedom of speech
- 28th January 2008: Statement on Prince Charles and the Olympics
- 22nd January 2008: Dalai Lama calls on supporters to stage peaceful protests
- 1st August 2007: Events in London to mark Olympic countdown
- 3rd July 2007: FTC letter to IOC president Jaques Rogge
- 14th February 2007: Demonstration at mayor's reception
- 13th December 2006: Free press for Olympics? Not for Tibet
- 28th September 2006: China announces tough media restrictions for Olympics
- 9th August 2006: Two-year countdown- Olympic 'dream' conceals nightmare for Tibet
- 6th February 2006: Protests planned during winter Olympic Games
- 6th February 2006: Three Buddhist nuns and two monks sentenced
- 7th July 2005: Is SARS a wake-up call for IOC and China?
- 22nd November 2002: Free Tibet Campaign calls for Games human rights reform
- 15th October 2002: Free Tibet Campaign to meet Olympic President
- 13th July 2002: 1 year down, 6 to go
- 13th July 2001: IOC awards China Olympic Games
- 12th July 2001: China /IOC try to shut out human rights concerns
- 11th July 2001: 8 arrested as Tibetans protest Olympic bid

 

 

News articles about Tibet and the Olympics

GUARDIAN: China presses Dalai Lama in approach to Games

TELEGRAPH: Tibet tours back as Olympics approach
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (CNN): IOC write to China over concerns of 'politicizing' Tibet torch relay
GUARDIAN: Shanghai bans 'troublemakers' leaving city during Olympics
SUNDAY HERALD: Burning an illusion
MAIL: Torch passes peacefully through Tibet as 400 detained in Nepal
AFP: Olympic relay cut to one day in Tibet
BRAND REPUBLIC: Free Tibet Campaign focuses on Coke's London office
MIRROR: China warns Olympic visitors to behave
MERCURY NEWS: At Olympics, silence is not golden
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Beijing athletes ungagged
NEW YORK TIMES: Olympic torch reaches Everest peak
AFP: Olympic torch arrives in Hong Kong as fears mount
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: South Korea to deport Chinese involved in violent torch clashes
EURONEWS: Big pro-China turnout for Australia relay
BLOOMBERG: Musharraf reassures China over torch security in Pakistan
FORBES: Possible Japan ban for torch 'thugs'
SCOTSMAN: Torch now burning for humanity
WASHINGTON POST: President Bush confirms
BBC: 'Houdini torch' dissapoints
NY TIMES: The IOC's 5 ring circus
INDEPENDENT: Brown not attending ceremony
AP: Protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge
GUARDIAN: Coe slams 'thugs'
MAIL: Konnie Huq displeaded with minders
TELEGRAPH: Olympic torch extinguished
REUTERS: Paris leg called off
CHANNEL 4: Protesters mar relay
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Scuffles during relay
GUARDIAN: Chaotic scenes at relay
PRESS ASSOCIATION: Protesters target torch