The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy is going to organize an awareness concert to highlight one of the longest-running information blackouts imposed by China on Tibet. The blackout includes extreme restrictions placed on foreign journalists, human rights researchers, and independent monitors to visit Tibet and assess the ground situation. The Tibet Awareness Concert will be on World
Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2014. World Press Freedom Day “serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom - a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.”
In Tibet, foreign journalists have their movements strictly controlled, Tibetan citizen journalists have been detained and tortured for their efforts to share information about human rights abuses, and independent publications are banned or heavily censored. TCHRD will invite some known and less known rock bands and folk artists to front the awareness concert in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala. TCHRD is in talks with well-known journalists and activists to speak at the event including foreign correspondents who have had extensive experience covering China. The full list of speakers is still being developed. The speakers will express their thoughts and concerns on the freedom of the press in Tibet and on China in general. All the speakers will focus on the immediate need to open Tibet to foreign journalists and independent monitors to ascertain the real situation especially in light of increased repression and continuing self-immolation protests. TCHRD urge you to support the campaign in any capacity you can, it could be as simple as liking our page or following us on Twitter (our Twitter handle is ). Or you can write to the Chinese authorities to allow unrestricted access to independent journalists and human rights monitors to visit Tibet. Thank you for your support. Together we will fight the blackout in Tibet!
