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Rights Group Lashes IOC Chief Over China Controls : NYTimes

BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympics Committee has failed to ensure that China honors promised media freedoms ahead of Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games, a press rights group has claimed. In an open letter to IOC President Jacques Rogge, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders recounted cases of foreign reporters briefly detained and roughed up while investigating village protests and other sensitive topics.

The dream of Team Tibet   Aljazeera News

It's a sunny afternoon, and like many football fields around the world, there are a couple of teams getting set to kick it about.Here, the sides are made up of lads of Tibetan heritage, and they are playing in a tournament. 

IOC official urges statement on human rights in China

  With files on journalists, more propaganda and control over news agencies, Beijing is breaking all promises to IOC
Reporters Without Borders today condemned recent decisions by the Chinese authorities to create files on foreign journalists, reinforce Olympic Games propaganda efforts and reject any possibility of increased access for foreign news agencies to the Chinese market.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24354

China: IOC Should End Silence on Press Freedom Violations

The International Olympic Committee should mark China’s official Journalists’ Day on Thursday by ending its silence on the Chinese government’s ongoing violations of its pledge on media freedoms, a commitment it made to the IOC to win its bid to host the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing, Human Rights Watch said today.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/11/05/china17250.htm

China's Biggest Olympics Test (commentary)

The Beijing Olympics are less than a year away. While China's extensive construction program is well under way, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is retrogressing on its promise to the International Olympic Committee to improve human rights.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12272

Unreported World: China's Olympic Lie (video story)
A journalist looks into Beijing's so called 'Black Jails'
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1357069DKZqmaty

The Battle of Beijing (editorial)
What happens when an authoritarian government and thousands of activists go head-to-head at the Olympics? China is about to find out.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4000

BEIJING, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained six protesters who unveiled a banner calling for a free Tibet on the Great Wall, a campaign group said on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Free Tibet activists on the Great Wall, a barrage of critical rights reports, a shroud of smog hanging over Beijing -- China's government must surely have imagined a more auspicious one-year countdown for the Olympics. 
On top of that, the flood of food safety scandals shows no sign of abating and a group of dissidents has written an open letter to President Hu Jintao calling for the Games' slogan to be changed to "One World, One Dream, Same Human Rights."

Six foreign activists have been detained for holding a protest on the Great Wall of China. The activists called for an independent Tibet, and claimed the International Olympic Committee was not holding China accountable for human rights abuses. 

BEIJING: Chinese police, on Friday, have arrested hundreds of people in western China after residents there called for the return of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. 
Soldiers and police were dispatched to Lithang, an ethnically Tibetan part of Sichuan province, after locals gathered on Wednesday to celebrate a traditional horse festival, said rights group International Campaign for Tibet and Radio Free Asia (RFA).

A group of Tibetans were arrested in western China after public calls for the return of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, reports say. The incident took place on 1 August at a festival in Litang town in western Sichuan, Radio Free Asia and the International Campaign for Tibet said.

Tibetan groups ask IOC to pressure China on rights

By N.Ananthanarayanan : Guardian UK

NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Tibetan groups urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday to pressure China into fulfilling the pledge on human rights it made when it was awarded the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

2007-07-31 UNPO: Despite China’s pledge to grant press freedoms ahead of the Olympics, Australian directors shooting a documentary in Tibet were kept under close scrutiny by the military.