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As the Olympics took place, Tibetans were still languishing in prison, facing torture for simply possessing a photo of the Dalai Lama and living in an environment were freedom of expression was severely limited.
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Free Tibet Campaign has long been concerned about the effects of China's occupation on the unique natural environment of Tibet.
As the world becomes more and more environmentally conscious, it becomes increasingly apparent that we must protect places like Tibet, where mineral resources are mined at an alarming rate and initiatives such as the Gormo-Lhasa railway and plans to build around Mount Kailash leave the future of beautiful landscapes of Tibet hanging on a kinfe-edge.
Our campaigns focussed on companies such as Bombardier, Shell, Sino Gold and Orchid have asked the right questions about these issues, and we will continue to fight for the environment of Tibet in the future.
Free Tibet Campaign deplores Google's capitulation to political pressure from China to provide a web-based search engine for the Chinese market that prohibits access to information about Tibet and other sensitive political issues, such as the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The Stop the Torture campaign marked a drive to highlight the cases of a number of Tibetan political prisoners serving lengthy sentences in some of the toughest Chinese jails within the 'autonomous region' of Tibet.
These prisoners had been detained on various charges, largely amounting to 'splittism'; a term used to villify those who peacefully call for greater freedoms.
Following on from the UN's report on torture being 'widespread' in such prisons, and the personal testimony of those who had lived through it, the campaign was successful in prompting some prisoners to be released early, and Free Tibet continues to focus on such cases, which remain commonplace today.
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