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TIBETANS AND SUPPORTERS PROTEST OUTSIDE OF IOC MEETING IN ATHENS; ACTIVISTS EJECTED FROM HOTEL GROUNDS
Tibetans Demand IOC Cancel Tibet Leg of Torch Relay and Pressure China for Immediate Media Access to Tibet

Contact: Tenzin Yeshi, Tibetan Youth

Athens -- Pro-Tibet activists protested outside the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Executive Board meeting today in Athens. Four young Tibetan women from the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe were denied access to the hotel where the IOC meeting is taking place, and immediately staged a dramatic 'die-in' to symbolize the death of Tibetans which Tibet activists fear is likely if China is allowed to parade the Olympic torch through Tibetan areas. Additionally, two activists were ejected from the hotel after distributing leaflets appealing to supporters of the Olympic movement to speak up to the IOC. Outside, supporters also held Tibetan flags and banners reading "IOC: No Torch In Tibet!" and "Open Tibet To Media!" During the demonstration, the four Tibetan women carried a photo of Sangye Lhamo, a 23-year old Tibetan nun who was beaten and arrested by Chinese police last Thursday after staging a peaceful protest in Kardze, eastern Tibet.

INDIAN POLICE ARREST 265 TIBETANS MARCHING TO TIBET
March had just resumed after 13-day standoff as China prepares to take Olympic torch to Tibet

Nainital - 259 Tibetan marchers and six members of the organizing committee were arrested by police after resuming the March to Tibet following a 13 day stand-off with police. They had covered 16 kilometers when they were arrested at Berinag, approximately 180 kilometers from the Indo-Tibetan border area. Fifty marchers, including leading Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue and Shingza Rinpoche of Sera Monastery, stayed behind at the the campsite at Banspatan in Uttarakhand State, determined to continue to Tibet in the event that their fellow marchers were stopped. The five presidents of the NGOs organizing the March and one coordinator are still being held in Roshanabad Jail near Hardwar.

"As China prepares to parade its Olympic torch through Tibet next week in a blatant attempt to legitimize its rule in Tibet, the increasing repression is compounding the Tibetan people's suffering under China's illegal occupation," said Lhakpa Tsering, a marcher as well as an executive member of the Tibetan Youth Congress. "My only wish is to reach Tibet and join my brothers and sisters. Even if I can't lessen their suffering, I can at least make sure the world knows about their suffering."

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By Deborah Kyvrikosaios
ATHENS, June 3 (Reuters) - Tibetan activists on Tuesday urged the International Olympic Committee to cancel the Olympic torch relay in Tibet and said there was still time to press China on human rights.
The group that has disrupted the torch relay along its route from ancient Olympia through European capitals said it was determined to continue the protests and would try to lobby IOC officials meeting in Athens this week.
"There is still time to pressure China, this is a moment that won't come again," Lhadon Tethong, head of the Students For a Free Tibet, told a news conference in Athens.

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