In molte città gli albergatori hanno ricevuto l’ordine di non dare ospitalità ai non residenti.Nuove perquisizioni,e nuovi arresti ,a Lhasa e in alcuni centri minori.
Tra il 27 ed il 28 gennaio sui muri di Serthar sono apparsi molti manifesti inneggianti all’indipendenza del Tibet.
Per quanto riguarda la protesta dei monaci di Dege, durante la quale la polizia ha aperto il fuoco,mi hanno confermato alcuni nominativi di religiosi arrestati dopo gli scontri :
- Ven Tsering Wangchuk,
- Chu Gha,
- Tashi Dorjee,
- Sonam Norbu,
- Choejor Palden
- Dongthok Tashi

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During the week before the 2009 Chinese New Year, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Political Bureau Central Committee held a meeting to discuss propaganda campaigns outside China for the upcoming year.
During the meeting’s concluding speech, the Standing Committee member who is in charge of “ideology” pointed out that due to the joint efforts of the Propaganda Department, the “United Front” and the Foreign Affairs departments over the past decade, most overseas Chinese media companies very much carry the identity of the CCP’s policies and practices.

L'8 dicembre 2008, la corte del Partito Comunista Cinese (PCC) ha condannato le praticanti del Falun Gong signore Wang Zhongqiong e Chen Ru, rispettivamente, a quattro e tre anni di prigione. Durante il processo, il giudice non ha consentito che i loro parenti le difendessero o che nominassero un difensore. Il processo è stato condotto in modo affrettato e non accurato.

Uno dei giovani tibetani arrestati dopo la manifestazione del 20 gennaio a Chamdo è morto per le torture subite in carcere.
Mi hanno anche riferito che altri due detenuti versano in gravi condizioni per le percosse ed i maltrattamenti inflitti dalla polizia politica comunista.

Ieri la polizia cinese ha aperto il fuoco sui religiosi del monastero di Dege (Kham ) che manifestavano contro la campagna di “rieducazione patriottica”.
Molti monaci sono stati tratti in arresto e deportati in una località sconosciuta.
Non si conosce l’esatto numero dei feriti.

Three Tibetan monks from Kardze monastery and a nun from Kardze Gaden Choeling nunnery have been sentenced to various prison terms, according to sources with contacts in Kardze.

The Chinese authorities put one writer under house arrest and restrict the freedom of another amid continuing police investigations into Charter 08, a document calling for broad political change.
Members of Visual Arts Alliance and democracy activists rally in support of Charter 08 and call for the immediate release of Liu Xiaobo in front of Consulate-General of China in New York.

WASHINGTON—Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin has been incarcerated for the past 10 years. His family files annual requests to visit for Chinese New Year but the Chinese authorities have consistently denied his visitation rights.
Qin was sentenced to 12 years prison in 1998 on charges of “subverting state power,” after he formed the China Democracy Party in the central city of Wuhan, Hubei Province.

Chinese authorities question thousands in a campaign that rights activists say is focused on finding participants in last year's Lhasa unrest.
HONG KONG--Chinese authorities in Tibet have launched a 42-day "strike hard" campaign in the Himalayan region, rounding up thousands for questioning, according to official media.

LANKAO, China (AFP) — Beaten, cheated and underpaid in cities, rural migrant worker Cheng Wenlong trekked home for the Lunar New Year with no job and few plans to celebrate China's most important holiday.
"I was not able to bring home anything. What's the point of celebrating?" said the 19-year-old who is meant to be the main money earner for his family after his father died in a road accident eight years ago.

India on Friday banned imports of several types of toys from China.
A government statement did not give details but industry officials said the order would ban imports of almost all toys from China.
The Toy Association of India's president, Raj Kumar, said the ban would severely hit imports of Chinese toys, but Indian authorities had likely taken the step in the interest of the economy.

Tibetan NGOs announces its decision not to celebrate the 2136 Earth-Ox year this coming February.
This decision was made with an intention to mourn the deaths of the hundreds of Tibetan who were killed by the Chinese military since March last year and to express our deepest solidarity with the thousands of Tibetans who continue to languish in the prisons in Tibet and to express empathy with Tibetans inside Tibet; affected by last year's brutal clampdown.

Dharamshala: For raising their voice against the Chinese government's reinforcement of Patriotic Education of denouncing His Holiness the Dalai Lama and its propaganda, six Tibetan youths have been detained by police in Dzogang (Ch:Zuogong) county of the Chamdo prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

According to sources, on 20 January, at around 2 – 3 p.m. (local time), a group of Tibetan youths protested in Dzogang [in Chinese, Zuogong] county of the Chamdo [in Chinese, Changdu] prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Tibetans and police report a protest and an explosion in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
KATHMANDU—Three Tibetans protesting Chinese rule in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have been beaten and detained by police amid rising tensions in the run-up to politically sensitive anniversaries in the Himalayan region.
Separately, police officials in the same part of Tibet confirmed an explosion earlier this month at a government building near the Jan. 20 protest. Sources said no one died in the blast.

BEIJING - A Chinese activist who made his name as a grassroots organizer has disappeared, his son said on Tuesday, claiming authorities did not want his father to attend a U.S. consulate reception to mark Barack Obama's inauguration. Yao Lifa, a well-known advocate of free elections from Hubei province in central China, was due to attend the reception held by the U.S. consulate in Wuhan, the provincial capital.