The clampdown on Tibetan intellectuals and activists continues in Tibet with the recent arrests of four Tibetan environmental activists in Tawu, eastern Tibet. The four arrested were members of a locally-founded environment group.
Exactly a year after monk Phuntsog set himself on fire demanding the return of the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet, another Tibetan has set himself on fire today.
A roundtable conference of Rangzen (independence) advocates in New York has resolved to create a new movement for the Rangzen Struggle. Three special committees were also set-up to implement the resolutions passed at the conference
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed concern for the health of three Tibetan hunger strikers who have been on an indefinite fast outside the UN headquarters since February 22.
Nepali police in Kathmandu were out in full force, randomly arresting common Tibetans, as well as the head of the Tibetan Welfare Office, yesterday as a preventive measure to avoid anti-China protests in the city.
With news coming in of yet another monk setting himself on fire in Rebkong, eastern Tibet, the fiery wave of self-immolation protests dominated the first day of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile’s budget session which began yesterday.
With confirmed reports of yet another fiery protest in Tibet earlier today, taking the toll of self-immolations to 28, major western countries have expressed serious concerns over the situation inside Tibet at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council 19th Session in Geneva.
Reports of beatings, arrests and monks being expelled from monasteries continue to flow out of Tibet as the entire region reels under, what rights groups have called, an undeclared martial law. On March 7, Khedup Dorjee, 38, a monk at Za-Samdrup Monastery in Kardze, was severely beaten
Reports of yet another self-immolation by a monk in Rebkong in the traditional Amdo region are coming out of Tibet. Jamyang Palden, 34 a monk at the Rongwo monastery in Rebkong set himself on fire in an apparent protest against the Chinese government earlier today.
Seventeen Tibetan nuns from eight nunneries in India and Nepal attended a seven-day training in Dharamshala organised by the Tibetan Women’s Association. Nuns Leadership Training concluded with a panel discussion
