Please go to sfttv.org to watch SFT’s press briefing from earlier this week.
Students for a Free Tibet’s leadership speaks out one week before the opening of the Beijing Olympics updating members of the press on current conditions inside Tibet, and SFT’s plans to continue to use Beijing’s Summer Olympics to shine a spotlight on China’s brutal occupation of Tibet.
Good morning and thank you everyone for joining us for our pre-Beijing Olympics press briefing.
My name is Lhadon Tethong and I am the Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) International based in New York City. As many of you know, Students for a Free Tibet is a grassroots network of students, youth and people of conscience in over 100 countries working in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence.
For the past 8 years we have played a leading role in the international campaign to first stop China from getting the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and then to bring awareness to the Chinese government’s use of the Olympics as a political tool to whitewash their human rights record and legitimize their illegal and brutal occupation of Tibet. » Read the rest of this entry «