"The Chinese authorities should allow an independent UN investigation into the events of the last week in Tibet, particularly in the light of the sealing off of the region in recent days
Shortly after the end of morning prayer session, thousands of monks erupted into spontaneous protest by raising slogans calling for "Tibet independence",
Hundreds of People’s Armed Police have surrounded 2 monasteries in Tibet to avoid further spread of the protests in Lhasa and other areas. Bumying Monastery in the eastern edge of Sershul town
Tibetan exile communities -the public voice of a region now largely sealed off from the rest of the world - ramped up their protests on behalf of demonstrators
China restricts access to Tibet for foreign media, making it difficult to independently verify the casualties and the scale of protests and suppression
Thousands of Buddhist monks and other Tibetans clashed with the riot police in a second Chinese city on Saturday, while the authorities said they had regained control of the Tibetan capital
