[6] According to UNPO, shortly after the alleged ban, Woeser was also fired from her job and lost her status with her work unit.

According to RFA, on July 28, 2006, both blogs were closed by order of the government, apparently in response to postings in which she expressed birthday greetings to the Dalai Lama and touched on other sensitive topics.

[12] Liu Xiaobo, the author of Charter 08, was sentenced for eleven years of prison and awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

[13] In July 2009, Woeser and her husband were one of more than 100 signatories to a petition asking Chinese authorities to release detained ethnic-Uyghur professor of economics Ilham Tohti.

[16] Her "Garpon La's Offerings," translated by Dechen Pemba and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, appeared in The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays.