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China Aims to Stifle Tibet’s Photocopiers

#China Aims to Stifle #Tibet's #Photocopiers - NYTimes.com
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#freedom #speech

[excerpt]

BEIJING — The authorities have identified a new threat to political
stability in the restive region of Tibet: photocopiers. Fearful that
Tibetans might mass-copy incendiary material, public security officials
intend to more tightly control printing and photocopying shops, according
to reports from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.

A regulation now in the works will require the operators of printing and
photocopying shops to obtain a new permit from the government, the Lhasa
Evening News reported this month. They will also be required to take down
identifying information about their clients and the specific documents
printed or copied, the newspaper said.

A public security official in Lhasa, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity, said the regulation "is being implemented right now," but on a
preliminary basis. The official hung up the phone without providing
further details.

Tibetan activists said the new controls were part of a broader effort to
constrain Tibetan intellectuals after a March 2008 uprising that led to
scores of deaths. Since the riots, more than 30 Tibetan writers, artists
and other intellectuals have been detained for song lyrics, essays,
telephone conversations and e-mail messages deemed to pose a threat to
Chinese rule, according to a report issued this week by the International
Campaign for Tibet, a human rights group based in Washington.

"Basically, the main purpose is to instill fear into people's hearts,"
said Woeser, an activist who, like many Tibetans, goes by one name. "In
the past, the authorities tried to control ordinary people at the
grass-roots level. But they have gradually changed their target to
intellectuals in order to try to control thought."

Ms. Woeser said she was also a target of the authorities for her views.
She lost her job in Lhasa after her book "Notes on Tibet" was banned in
2003. She now lives in Beijing, but she said she was carefully watched by
the authorities.

China's leaders contend that their only goal is to guarantee stability,
ethnic unity and better living standards for Tibetans. Officials say that
as long as separatist leaders are kept