Video footage is notoriously difficult to come across regarding the situation in Tibet, due to the Chinese authorities' stringent controls on media and the harsh prison sentences distributing such information to the west carries.

Tibetans who distribute footage are at great risk, as are their families, but this year Free Tibet has obtained some rare, dramatic footage of crackdowns in Tibet following the Dalai Lama's Congressional gold medal award.
Other videos below include testimony from those involved in the campaign and archive videos.

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ITV report: dramatic footage of crackdowns in Tibet

On the eve of Gordon Brown's visit to China, Free Tibet gained access to the first footage of police crackdowns in Tibet for quite some time. This footage was used as part of a report on the situation in Tibet by ITV, including an interview with the Dalai Lama.

Read the press release on this video and read the Dalai Lama transcript.

Source: ITV

Former political prisoner Phuntsog Nyidrol appeals to Gordon Brown

Former political prisoner Phuntsog Nyidrol, one of the Drapchi nuns, gives an empassioned plea to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he visits the UK in May 2008.

More about Phuntsog Nyidrol here.

Source: Free Tibet