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3 Quick Facts about SFT UK that you might not know

1. SFT UK is a network of groups across the UK and is run by an elected board of 10 activists.

2. SFT has no staff in the UK! It's all volunteer run over here but there are staff members in the US, Canada and India.

3. We're not boycotting the sporting bit of the Olympics but we are calling for No Torch in Tibet and a political boycott by world leaders.

Gordon Brown's now almost legendary indecision has risen its wavering head again. Back in March he promised to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London. We assumed that meant in Downing Street, just like John Major and Tony Blair before him. Looks like we were wrong!

The plan is now for the meeting to take place at Lambeth Palace so that the meeting can be called a religious one. A meeting at Downing Street would send a much stronger signal to China's government that their recent activities in Tibet are not acceptable.

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As the torch passed through the Korean capitol Seoul, Chinese nationalists lined the streets to welcome it, outnumbering those who were there to protest against China's brutal occupation and repression on Tibet. Despite the Tibet supporters being there as part of officially organised and permitted demonstrations - not something the Chinese supporters can claim - they were treated increasingly aggressively by the Chinese. Flags were ripped away from them, they were chased, punched, kicked and had rocks and bottles thrown at them. There was even a case of a group of Tibet supporters chased into a hotel by Chinese and beaten on the floor of the lobby.

It seems the Chinese government's policy of violent repression towards any alternative ideas has become part of many Chinese people's collective consciousness. These extreme nationalistic tendancies are getting increasingly worse as the Olympics draw nearer and more extreme cases of the people echoing the government are coming to light.