Woeser was the only Tibetan among Charter 08's original signatories, per a contemporaneous specialist count

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Woeser — the Tibetan poet A.E. Clark's Ragged Banner Press exists in part to translate — signed Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo's December 2008 human-rights manifesto modelled on Czechoslovakia's Charter 77, among its original wave of signatories. Wikipedia places her "among the first of the original 303 signatories"; a contemporaneous specialist source, High Peaks Pure Earth, sharpens the claim two days after the charter's release: "Only one Tibetan, however, has signed 'Charter 08' and that is Beijing based poet and blogger Woeser."

The two figures come from two different places and should not be welded into one. The count of 303 is Wikipedia's; the contemporaneous specialist post says only "over three hundred prominent Chinese citizens" and supplies the "only one Tibetan" half, not the denominator.

Flag: [unverified-quant]. "Only one" is a count claim about a document with 300+ initial signatories, and the sourcing floor requires Tier 1–2 for numbers — this rests on Tier 3 (a named blog aggregating contemporaneous China/Tibet reporting) and Tier 4 (Wikipedia), not the charter's own signatory list or a scholarly tally. The count is plausible — Tibetans were a small fraction of any Beijing-centered intellectual petition in 2008 — but "only one" is exactly the kind of precise number a secondary source can get wrong by missing a name. See question-verify-woeser-sole-tibetan-charter-08-signatory.

Correction history.

• 2026-09-05 — the charter's own signatory list (Tier 1, CECC mirror) has now been read directly, per the question this note raised. It confirms the denominator (303, stated twice in the document itself) and confirms exactly one entry — Woeser's — declares Tibet as province of residence. But the list's parenthetical field is (province, occupation), not ethnicity, and several other entries list provinces (Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan) that overlap historically Tibetan regions outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. So this note's "only one Tibetan" claim, read as an ethnicity claim, remains narrower than the primary document alone can prove — the [unverified-quant] flag STANDS for that reading. Read as a claim about self-declared province, it is now Tier 1 confirmed. See claim-charter-08-signatory-list-confirms-303-total, claim-charter-08-signatory-list-woeser-sole-tibet-province-entry, and claim-charter-08-signatory-list-records-province-not-ethnicity (from 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-05-was-woeser-genuinely-the-only-tibetan-among-charter.md).