SFT India launched its first Renaissance Series in India

Amplifying  everything BANNED IN TIBET

Date: 13th Aug

A popular Tibetan poet from Tibet, Gade Tsering began his poem titled “My Tibetanness” in response to exile poet Tenzin Tsundue’s poem using the same title. This could be the tone of what the exile Tibetans are now coming together, adding voices to the Tibetans inside Tibet in the form a “Renaissance Series” undertaken by Students For Free Tibet, India.

SFT India launched its first  ‘Renaissance Series’ at TCV day school here Friday. The renaissance series is in response to all things “banned in Tibet” and will be amplified in exile.

The theme is on the creative voices of the Tibetans who are asserting their Tibetan identity in the form of blogging, film making, painting, songs, poetry and books which are banned in Tibet.

A two hour long event of 12 acts included exiled Tibetan poets, singers and activists performing compositions of the Tibetans inside Tibet, talking about works of Tibetans who have faced arrests and imprisonment for expression of their creativity. (more…)

RARE FOOTAGE OF TIBETAN NOMAD’S PROTEST

Tibetans, supporters call for Runggye Adak’s release

Three years after his arrest, footage of Runggye Adak’s bold protest speech at the Lithang Horse Racing Festival has been publicly released. Adak is serving an 8-year prison sentence for simply denouncing China’s policies in Tibet and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama.

Read the joint press release marking the anniversary of his arrest.

TIBETANS, SUPPORTERS WORLDWIDE APPEAL FOR RELEASE OF AILING TIBETAN MONK JAILED BY CHINA

People signing petition at the Main square in Mcleod Ganj.

40,000 Signature Petition Delivered to Chinese Government in Support of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

Dharamshala - Tibetans and their supporters joined a global day of action today for the release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly revered religious leader and community organizer from eastern Tibet who is currently serving a life sentence in Chinese prison. In cities around the world, demonstrators delivered a 40,000 signature petition to Chinese embassies and consulates denouncing China’s unjust imprisonment of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche. In Dharamshala, more than ten thousand petition signatures were sent by fax and courier to Chinese authorities in Beijing and to the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. The petition text mirrored a similar petition signed by 40,000 Tibetans in Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s home region of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet (Chinese: Sichuan Province ). Members of Tenzin Delek’s family attempted to deliver the petition to the Chinese government in December 2009 but were stopped en route to Beijing.

“Like all Tibetan prisoners of conscience, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche did not receive a fair trial under Chinese law. Now is the time for his case to be re-opened and a new trial to be granted in accordance with international legal standards, especially given his deteriorating health condition,” said Ngawang Woebar, President of Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet and a former political prisoner. “We sent 40,000 signatures from around the world to the Chinese government today to press for the release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who has served nine years of an unjust prison sentence. We are also standing in solidarity with Tibetans in Tibet who have risked their lives to appeal for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s freedom, and call on the international community to join our appeal for this innocent Tibetan monk.” (more…)