INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Tibetan Advocacy Group Demands China Release Panchen Lama Ahead of His 30th Birthday

  China should immediately free the Panchen Lama from custody and allow him to return to his monastery to assume his role as the second most well-known religious figure in Tibet, a Tibetan advocacy group said… Continue…

• Police in China’s Guangzhou Detain Eight After Demolition Standoff

  Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained eight people following clashes with land protesters in the provincial capital Guangzhou, RFA has learned. Several hundred police officers were sent to Tanwei village in… Continue…

• China ‘Systematically’ Impedes US Access to Tibet: State Department Report

  China “systematically” impedes access to Tibet for U.S. diplomats and officials, journalists, and tourists, and when visits to the region are granted, they are “highly restricted,” the U.S. State Department said in a report that… Continue…

• Italian Journalist ‘Threatened’ by Chinese Official in Rome: Newspaper

  An Italian newspaper that is typically critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping's overseas infrastructure plan has said that a Chinese embassy official tried to intimidate one of its reporters. Giulia Pompili ran across Yang Han,… Continue…