Lhadon Tethong, SFT's Executive Director, appeared on The Hour, a Canadian talk show broadcast nationally on CBC Television. She discusses the uprising in Tibet, the global protests that marred China's Olympic torch relay, and how Tibetans are risking everything in this Olympic year to speak out for freedom.

Watch the interview now.

As the Chinese government summited Mt. Everest with its tainted Olympic torch in an act of ultimate assault, Tibetans worldwide held prayers and vigils to mourn those killed in China's crackdown since March 10th. Click here to read SFT's press release.

One year ago, Tibet activists lit the Torch of Tibetan Freedom at Everest base camp. Watch the video here.

On the one-year anniversary of SFT's protest on Mt. Everest Base Camp, Deputy Director Tendor talks about the significance of the current uprising in Tibet, the impact of the global Tibet movement, and the work that we still need to do.

Please click here to watch his message.

Coca-Cola, one of the most powerful corporations in the world, is an official sponsor of China's torch relay. Please join Tibetans and supporters worldwide in calling on Coke's executives to use their influence to pressure the International Olympic Committee to withdraw Tibet from the torch relay route. Click here to take action now.

Tibetans and supporters protested at Coke's shareholders meeting, calling on the company to do the right thing. Click here to read SFT's press release.

Chinese authorities have promised to "harshly" repress Tibetans during the planned Olympic torch relay through Tibet, in order to assure a successful propaganda exercise. In other words, the torch in Tibet will likely cause bloodshed and suffering. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Members have the power to prevent this impending disaster. CLICK HERE to watch a video (WARNING: very graphic content) and help spread the message that the lives of Tibetans are in the hands of the IOC's Executive Members.

Click here now to send an email to IOC Executive Members.

Students for a Free Tibet activists got a bold head start on the huge torch relay protests planned for San Francisco this week when they hung two massive banners from the Golden Gate Bridge reading: "One World One Dream" and "Free Tibet 08." Seven people were arrested during the protest and were released early Wednesday morning.
Click here to see video footage on CNN.
Click here to read SFT's press release about the action.
Click here for more information and analysis on the SFT blog.
Click here to donate to the legal defense fund for the arrested activists.
Click here to read SFT's statement about the Torch Relay protests.

SFT has launched a new flash animation video to expose the true face of the Chinese government as it tries to hide behind its glossy Olympics propaganda.

Click here to view the Torch flash animation video.
Click here to send it to your friends and post it on your blog or website.
Click here to add the flash animation to your Facebook profile.
Click here to read SFT's press release: 3/31/08

Visit www.torchrelaybeijing2008.org for more information on China's tainted torch relay, where protests are taking place in the coming week, and how you can take action to help pressure the International Olympic Committee to remove Tibet from the relay route.

A group of Tibetan monks disrupted a tightly controlled Chinese government media tour in Lhasa today — the only foreign media that has been allowed into Tibet since widespread protests of Chinese rule gripped the nation. 

Click here to read SFT's press release.
Click here to watch video footage from the incident as reported by BBC.
Click here for analysis on this and other breaking news on SFT's blog.

New information and photos of the protests in Ngaba "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture" in the Tibetan province of Amdo on March 16th have been made available today by local sources. Click here to see photos (Warning: photos are graphic and very disturbing). 20,000 Tibetans are reported to have joined the uprising in Ngaba.

Click here to read SFT's press release from Tuesday, March 18th.

Dozens of Tibetan students in Beijing held a candle light vigil at the Central University for Nationalities. Around 500 Tibetan students in Lanzhou, eastern Tibet, undertook a 24-hour hunger strike to protest China's violent crackdown on Tibetans. Click here to read more. Everyone at Students for a Free Tibet feels a great sense of solidarity and pride with young Tibetans inside Tibet and China. We are with you.

“The Chinese authorities are locking up as many Tibetan protesters as possible in different jails. Many of them are detained in a jail behind the Potala Palace and four other prisons in the Lhasa area...Read More