FIGHT THE BLACKOUT

Help us end the information blackout in Tibet so independent journalists and human rights monitors could visit Tibet without Chinese minders.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy is going to organize an awareness concert to highlight one of the longest-running information blackouts imposed by China on Tibet. The blackout includes extreme restrictions placed on foreign journalists, human rights researchers, and independent monitors to visit Tibet and assess the ground situation. The Tibet Awareness Concert will be on World

Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2014. World Press Freedom Day “serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom - a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.”

In Tibet, foreign journalists have their movements strictly controlled, Tibetan citizen journalists have been detained and tortured for their efforts to share information about human rights abuses, and independent publications are banned or heavily censored. TCHRD will invite some known and less known rock bands and folk artists to front the awareness concert in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala. TCHRD is in talks with well-known journalists and activists to speak at the event including foreign correspondents who have had extensive experience covering China. The full list of speakers is still being developed. The speakers will express their thoughts and concerns on the freedom of the press in Tibet and on China in general. All the speakers will focus on the immediate need to open Tibet to foreign journalists and independent monitors to ascertain the real situation especially in light of increased repression and continuing self-immolation protests. TCHRD urge you to support the campaign in any capacity you can, it could be as simple as liking our page or following us on Twitter (our Twitter handle is @tchrd_). Or you can write to the Chinese authorities to allow unrestricted access to independent journalists and human rights monitors to visit Tibet. Thank you for your support. Together we will fight the blackout in Tibet!

13/12/2021

Eminent Tibetan scholar Gō Sherab Gyatso sentenced to ten years in prison The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) confirmed that Gō Sherab Gyatso also known as Gosher was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court a month ago, following news of the sentencing that surfaced on social media on Human Rights Day last Friday.

09/05/2019

Spotlight on Lack of Press Freedom in Tibet - Tibetan Magazine for Tibet News & Issues Tibetan journalists gathered in Dharamshala to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3 and to voice their concerns about the declining access to information and reporting from Tibet due to the systematic restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on the right to freedom of movement and access for....

01/05/2019

Let us Fight the Blackout again on this year's Press Freedom Day so that China can no longer its inhumane brutality in Tibet.

Thank you, Association of Tibetan Journalists (ATJ), for coming on board and joining us.

FIGHT THE BLACKOUT Help us end the information blackout in Tibet so independent journalists and human rights monitors could visit Tibet without Chinese minders.

04/05/2014

First set of photos from Tibet Awareness Concert on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2014, at Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Dharamsala.

[Photographer: David Huang]

03/05/2014

Full on preparation for Tibet Awareness Concert: Fight the Blackout on World Press Freedom Day

2014 Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Awarded to Erdem Gunduz, P***y Riot, and Dhondup Wangchen...

03/05/2014

2014 Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Awarded to imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen among others

Heartfelt congratulations to Dhondup Wangchen la!

More at http://humanrightsfoundation.org/news/2014-havel-prize-for-creative-dissent-awarded-to-erdem-gunduz-pussy-riot-and-dhondup-wangchen-00379

2014 Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Awarded to Erdem Gunduz, P***y Riot, and Dhondup Wangchen... The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonpartisan organization devoted to defending human rights globally, with an expertise in the Americas.

Tibetan Centre Launches 'Fight the Blackout' Campaign

02/05/2014

Outlook magazine has a report out on Fight the Blackout campaign.

Outlook is an India-based independent news weekly that features contents from politics, sports, cinema, and stories of broad interests. It was first issued in October, 1995 with Vinod Mehta as the Editor in Chief.

We remain ever grateful for your continued support. Keep on spreading the word.

More at http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=839359

Tibetan Centre Launches 'Fight the Blackout' Campaign The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has launched a "Fight the Blackout" campaign aimed at highlighting alleged restrictions put on independent journalists and human rights monitors who wish to visit and assess the ground situation in Tibet.

02/05/2014

China should do more than marking World Press Freedom Day on its calendar.

We need no rocket science to understand that freedom is so much more than a date on a calendar.

http://www.china.org.cn/2014calendar/node_7196558.htm

May 2014 - China.org.cn 1: International Labor Day (1 day off). On May 1, 1886, 800,000 workers from all trades and factories throughout the U.S. went on strike in support of the eight-hour workday. In Chicago, many workers and police were killed in the confrontation during the strike. On July 14, 1889, with a proposal by…

01/05/2014

Why Blues?

The great Ralph Ellison, author of the classic Invisible Man, defined it best:

"The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”

Don't miss Big Bang Blues perform on Saturday at TIPA as we fight the blackout with the blues: http://bigbangblues.in/about/

Big Bang Blues | Bio BioWhen Blues and Good Ole' Rock 'n' Roll had a baby!Formed in 2009, Big Bang Blues takes its spirit from the times when Blues was born. Fathered by voices that sang of angst and misery. Backed by rusty stringed guitars and harps.With numerous line-up changes, Big Bang Blues (BBB) has evolved its ch…

01/05/2014

Tibetan monk and activist Jigme Gyatso aka Golog Jigme is among the list of '100 Information Heroes' compiled by Reporters Without Borders to mark the 2014 World Press Freedom Day.

Jigme Gyatso is honoured for his courage 'to promote the freedom enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom to “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."'

Jigme Gyatso has been missing since September 2012.

More on Jigme Gyatso at http://heroes.rsf.org/en/jigme-gyatso/

Jigme Gyatso Jigme Gyatso, also known as Golog Jigme, is a Buddhist monk and human rights activist who found fame with the film “Leaving Fear Behind” which he made with the farmer and film-maker Dhondup Wangche...

HOTEL ASIAN PLAZA to Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts - Google Maps

01/05/2014

For our friends asking for directions to TIPA, the venue of the concert, please bear in mind that TIPA is located on the Dharamkot road from the Main Square in Mcleod Ganj.

More at Google Maps: https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/HOTEL+ASIAN+PLAZA,+Main+Square+,+Mcleodganj,+Dharamshala,+Himachal+Pradesh+176215/Tibetan+Institute+of+Performing+Arts,+Trail+to+Triund+Hill+from+Main+Square,+Dharamsala,+Himachal+Pradesh+176219/@32.2420426,76.3216103,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x391b5120617d8db9:0xa3fd7c8847c3fafe!2m2!1d76.323555!2d32.238604!1m5!1m1!1s0x391b56d2855aaa5b:0xdfe357d3cc845af4!2m2!1d76.328316!2d32.243321

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