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From: Unknown <unknown@unknowndomain> To: randy@rain.psg.com Date: 10 Dec 92 03:55:12 GMT (Thu) Tibet Information Network 7 Beck Road London E8 4RE UK phone (44) (081) 533 5458 fax (44) (O71) 405 3814 To subscribe send an email message to tibet-relay-request@gnosys.svle.ma.us. with the following as the first line. subscribe tibet.information Your Name (where "Your Name" is replaced by the subscriber's full name - NOT his/her email address, which is obtained from the message header). To unsubscribe, use: signoff tibet.information ======================================================= "Everyone has the right to receive and impart information through any media and regardless of frontiers" Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Tibet Information Network (TIN) is an independent, non-profit making organisation which collects and analyses information about the situation in Tibet. It works to help protect fundamental human rights in Tibet by fostering the flow of information from Tibet about current conditions in that country. The organisation began when a group of western tourists witnessed the shooting by Chinese police of a number of Tibetan demonstrators in Lhasa in October, 1987. The authorities denied that police had opened fire, expelled journalists and tourists, shut down telephone lines and impounded foreigners' photographs of the incident. As a result, a number of tourists came together to compile detailed accounts of what they had seen and to send these to the outside world. Later some of those who had witnessed similar incidents formed TIN in order to continue the collection of accurate and dispassionate information about the situation inside Tibet. TIN, now based in London, UK, continues to conduct research into conditions in Tibet. It monitors developments in the political and economic fields as well as matters relating to the environment, the education and health services, religion and the arts in Tibet. Particular attention is paid to issues that relate to the observance or otherwise of human rights. Information comes from researchers in the field, as well as from official Chinese and Tibetan sources which are monitored in London. Observations from foreign visitors and overseas press reports are also assessed. Interviews, documents and secondary sources are processed by a team of volunteer translators and editors, and a selection of information is published in regular News Updates. Urgent news reports are distributed by fax and electronic mail to priority users. Detailed studies are published as Special Reports; copies of original documents are also made available, ecxept where the confidentiality of sources might be compromised. Recent reports have covered the role of nuns in political protest, the publication of 'samizdat' literature, demolition and reconstruction in the Tibetan quarter of Lhasa, the torture of political prisoners, the role of neighbourhood political committee meetings, discrimination in education, and the impact of Chinese settlers in Tibet. There are also detailed surveys of articles from the `Tibet Daily', the official organ of the Government in Lhasa. TIN uses computer communications to transmit material quickly around the world. It maintains an on-going public conference (tibet.information/reg.tibet) on the APC computer network (including peacenet, greennet, geonet, nicarao, pegasus, web, and igc) and has a special mail service for usenet/bitnet users. Relevant materials are distributed to subscribing organisations throughout the world including human rights organisations, international agencies, governments, parliamentarians, and the media. The collection and distribution of the information is guided by several fundamental principles. TIN aims to provide accurate and objective information, and to be free from political bias or affiliation. It therefore maintains its independence from any other organisations as well as from governments. TIN supplies information and research material to its subscribers irrespective of their opinions and takes no part in campaigning or lobbying activities. e-mail: (Greennet) gn:robbieb telex:(UK) 918023 GEONET attn:GN:SUPPORT for robbieb Tibet Information Network - Services and Subscriptions 1993 ------------------------------------------------------ - Subscription rates - UK Overseas per year Individuals: 30 45 ($90) Organisations: 60 75 ($150) Priority service by fax/e-mail: 20 30 ($60) ------------------------------------------------------ T.I.N. services to subscribers include: - quarterly News Updates providing detailed coverage of newss and events - Urgent News Releases sent to priority subscribers by fax or e-mail - Background Briefing Papers on key social and political issues - access to full text of key interviews and original documents (subject to protection of sources)* - translations of articles from the latest editions of Tibet Daily, China's official newspaper in Tibet* - reduced rates for special reports such as Defying the Dragon, a 140-page study of the human rights situation in Tibet [*an additional charge may be made for this service in certain cases] ------------------------------------------------------ T.I.N.. Background Briefing Papers include: - The Role of Nuns in Tibetan Protests - Housing Redevelopment in the Lhasa Barkor - The Imposition of Martial Law - A Premeditated Plan? - Constructing Spiritual and Material Civilisation in Tibet - Analysis of British Government Policy on Tibet - Christianity and Evangelism in Tibet ------------------------------------------------------ Original documents and visual materials include: - List of Political Prisoners in Drapchi and Gutsa Prisons - Text of the Panchen Lama's Final Speech - Police Video of Lhasa Riots, 1988 - Transcripts and Analysis of Interviews with Released Prisoners - Printed Pamphlets of the Independence Movement - Internal Party Guidelines on Religious Policy, Ganze Prefecture - TAR Chairman's Briefing on Security, October 1990 ------------------------------------------------------ T.I.N. is a non-profit making information service funded entirely by subsscription and by donations. It is independent of all governments and non-governmental organisations. > Thanks You're welcome. Gary -- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst