Cafe Momo is our winter cafe that is in its fifth 
season. We have had cooking demonstrations, interesting talks, live music, films, slide shows, lots of tea, cake, coffee and hot chocolate. Most of all the relaxed atmosphere of a Sunday afternoon, drinking tea, eating cake and talking to friends.
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
Margaret Atwood
Human Rights watch along with other organisations issue a joint statement on Tashi Wangchuks denied appeal....
..... This once again demonstrates that the Chinese Communist Party and justice system are content, before the eyes of the world, to force an innocent man to endure prison despite him never having committed a crime. The decision is an affront to justice and a wasted opportunity for Beijing to have reversed some of the damage it has done....
tibetnetwork.org/joint-ngo-statement-on-tashi-wangchuk-rejected-appeal-august-2018/
Joint NGO Statement on Tashi Wangchuk Rejected Appeal, August 2018
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Having had his appeal rejected, Tashi Wangchuk will have been returned to prison, where he is scheduled to remain until 2021. We are committed to continue pushing for his immediate and unconditional release. We urge all those governments and UN mechanisms who have expressed concern about his case to...freetibet.org/news-media/na/political-prisoner-tashi-wangchuk-denied-appeal
Political Prisoner Tashi Wangchuk denied appeal | Free Tibet
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The language campaigner was sentenced to a five year prison term in May, charged with "inciting separatism".Shame on China for consistently living up to their cover up and bully approach in areas where there could be fruitful dialogue and healthy change.
www.freetibet.org/news-media/na/china-defensive-its-human-rights-comes-under-scrutiny?utm_source=...
China on the defensive as its human rights comes under scrutiny | Free Tibet
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Chinese delegates try to play down and suppress evidence of Beijing’s repression in TibetTibetan language advocate #TashiWangchuk's lawyer @liangxiaojun has announced that his 5yr sentence on the ludicrous charge of 'inciting separatism' for talking to @comradewong of @nytimes was upheld by a Chinese court on 13 Aug. Due to be released in 2021 https://t.co/r0t8RbXjHa
Well it could have been worse, you could have said your wife was Tibetan.
Rule #1 as a new Foreign Sec: when reflecting in English with the Chinese on a conversation you had with them in Japanese about your Chinese wife, don’t get any of those mixed up! Apologies to the long-suffering Mrs H...!
Our new display of 'live art' created during our Tibet Day celebrations in June. It will be in Corsham for a week only. Thanks to Right Angled Picture Framing.
3We raised £375 at the Tibet Day. You can see some pics at https://t.co/MTJ1qcUsVC and in the Wiltshire times https://t.co/uhTXTCl9BY. A free festival for Tibetan Culture at Bradford on Avon.
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