News roundup + Banned writ­ing from Tibet

The International Campaign for Tibet recently came out with a book of banned essays and blog posts by Tibetans inside Tibet called The Gold that Fears no Fire. Rebecca Novick reads an excerpt from an essay by the Tibetan writer, Woeser, who describes her expe­ri­ence in August of 2008 vis­it­ing the famous Jokhang tem­ple in Lhasa where that March, a group of monks had dis­rupted a staged media tour and cried out for human rights in front of inter­na­tional reporters.