April 29th Speaker
Palden Gyatso is a Buddhist monk who spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps, where he was regularly tortured, interrogated, indoctrinated, and persecuted for refusing to recant his religious and political beliefs. After his release in 1992, he managed to smuggle Chinese instruments of torture out of the country as material proof of human rights abuses in Tibet. His memoir Fire Under the Snow, bears witness to the physical and mental anguish endured by Tibetan political prisoners and proudly upholds the resilience of the human spirit. Share
On the Web
Visit the website for Fire Under the Snow, a documentary film about Palden's story
View a profile of the Venerable Palden Gyatso from FreeTibet.com
Watch Palden's speech from Oslo Freedom Forum 2009:


At the Conference
Palden Gyatso will be joined by the following speakers during a special public event held April 29, 2010: Up Down