Last updated: March 28, 2008 6:01 pm

Tibet: The first foreign media reports

Geoff Dyer, the FT’s Shanghai correspondent, is one of a small group of foreign reporters allowed into Tibet for the first time since unrest began in mid-March. He speaks to Fang Wang of FT.com about why the government made the U-turn by inviting the journalists, and the mood in Lhasa.

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Day 1: Landing in Lhasa
Day 2: Press briefing disrupted by defiant monks
Day 3: Inflation exacerbates political tensions

Chinese riot police walk in front of a burnt building in Lhasa
A Chinese police officer watches the photographer from behind a tree
Chinese police officers stand guard at a junction on a road leading to Lhasa
A Tibetan couple walks past the shops burned during the riot
Residents look at pictures of the most wanted for the recent clashes, posted on a lamp pole in Lhasa
A Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard at a square with the Potala Palace, the Dalai Lama's former residence, seen at the background
A security officer at Gongkar airport in Lhasa stands near a wanted poster showing March 14 rioting suspects
Foreign journalists watch Chinese authorities' video allegedly showing a victim on March 14 riots during a briefing in Lhasa
Buddhist monks interrupt a government-organised visit by journalists to the Jokhang Temple with shouts about the lack of freedom in Tibet
The intrusion of the monks undermines a carefully choreographed visit designed to show that life is returned to normal in Lhasa
Paramilitary police patrol on a street in Lhasa
An arrested rioter cries while speaking to foreign journalists at a prison in Lhasa
A Tibetan woman carries her baby as she looks at a damaged shop, where five girls were killed during the March 14 riots in Lhasa

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