DHARAMSHALA, August 31: Hundreds of Tibetans and supporters, including the Tibetan Chief Justice Commissioners and Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today attended a mass prayer service held in honour of Tibetan self-immolators Lobsang Kalsang and Dhamchoe.
The Chinese embassy in New Delhi has once again issued letters and even paid visits to foreign embassies in the Indian capital, telling them not to receive a visiting Tibetan delegation from Dharamshala.
A global movement of Tibet advocacy groups has written an open letter to United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, urging her to make Tibet an “urgent priority” in her second term in office
Ahead of Chinese Defence Minister’s visit to India, New Delhi reasserted Thursday its claim over the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China “illegally” refers to as southern Tibet.
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said that although he doesn’t encourage self-immolations, the ongoing wave of fiery protests in Tibet was “understandable and very, very said.”
The suppressed voices of Tibetan writers inside Tibet will find expression among world-renowned writers at the Bjørnson Festival of International Literature in Norway. The Festival will feature an event on the plight of Tibetan writers
Days after the death of a Tibetan protester in an anti-mining demonstration, Tibetans in Gade region of Golog, eastern Tibet carried out a protest against Chinese gold miners at the sacred Dringye Ngo Sorma mountain.
DHARAMSALA, August 29: Tibetans in exile have pledged to intensify their actions as the number of self-immolations inside Tibet crossed the “tragic milestone” of 50 this week.
In continuing crackdown at the Gyalrong Tsodun Kirti Monastery in Barkham, eastern Tibet, another Tibetan monk has been arrested by Chinese security personnel on unknown charges. Lobsang Rabten, 34, was detained on August 19,
Just days ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s second visit to China in half a year, Tibetan supporters carried out a protest in front of her office in capital Berlin on Tuesday demanding that she publicly condemn China’s crackdown in Tibet.
