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Authorities are vowing there will be strict security for the travel of the Olympic torch through Tibet to Mount Everest.

Chinese dissident Yang Chunlin, who called for human rights to take precedence over the Olympic Games, has been sentenced to five years in jail on charges of inciting subversion

Several Tibetans-in-exile have tonsured their hair en masse and expressed solidarity with the anti-China protestors in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.

Nearly six decades of struggle against the might of China has taught the Tibetans one thing: Ask the world for little, expect less.......It is difficult for most countries to do more than call on China to show restraint, finding themselves walking a tightrope between their sympathy for the Tibetans and their very real economic and strategic needs to maintain good relations with Beijing.

A group of 29 Chinese dissidents urged Beijing to open direct dialogue with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the wake of rioting in the region. ::link

he Dalai Lama has said that if he were in a room with Chinese President Hu Jintao or Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, he said he would quote Deng Xiaoping and ask them to seek truth from facts. Saying he had great respect for Premier Wen, the Dalai Lama told NEWSWEEK, "I would also ask him, "Please prove your recent accusations [that the Dalai Lama instigated the unrest in Tibet."

Human rights and pro-democracy groups sympathetic to anti-China demonstrators in Tibet are being targeted by sophisticated cyber attacks

Tibet's anguish felt by expatriates. ::link