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Insecurity Checks II: Leave it Home or Lose it

10:25 PM, May 8, 2008 | Comments (0)
March 15 was the day many foreign media scrambled to try to reach Tibetan communities in Western China in the wake of Lhasa's ferment. It also happened to be the day that stricter no-liquids-allowed airport security checks came into force. The pileup...

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  • Monks and Media in Tibet

    Melinda Liu | Mar 27, 2008 04:08 PM
    Just a quickie before I run off for an interview.  The government-organized media tour of Lhasa was disrupted today by some 30 monks who shouted Tibetan independence slogans and maintained the exiled Dalai Lama had nothing to do with the protests.  One lama wept. After about 15 minutes they were hustled away by police, and the journalists were shoo-ed off to the next stop on their packed itinerary. My question is: what will happen to those monks? Everyone's worries, expressed in yesterday's blog, about the need to protect sources' right to free expression are really top priority now.  Here's Reuters report: More
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