In confirmed reports and photos coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet. Exile sources say that a Tibetan man, Sangay Gyatso, 27, set himself on fire in Tsoe region of Kanlho
China has refused to grant permission to an official Australian delegation from visiting Tibet, aimed at examining the reasons for the ongoing wave of self-immolations. China’s abject dismissal of Australia’s concerns over
Dhondup Lhadar, vice-president of Tibetan Youth Congress, who recently sat on a hunger strike in the Indian capital New Delhi, underwent surgery last evening. Doctors have said the surgery to remove stone build-up has been successful
A group of Taiwanese disciples today offered a long life prayer ceremony (Tib: tenshug) to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The main long life prayers and supplications to His Holiness were offered by Kyabje Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche
In reports coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan man has set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet, taking Tibet’s self-immolation toll to 53.
The New York based media rights watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over a missing Tibetan filmmaker after fears that he has been rearrested. Tibetan monk Golok Jigme Gyatso was first arrested in March 2008
Two Tibetans in eastern Tibet have been found “guilty” of “contacting with outsiders” and sentenced to several years in prison by a Chinese court. The Intermediate People's Court in Barkham sentenced a lay Tibetan, Thupdor, 25, to seven and a half years in prison and Lobsang Tashi, 26, a monk from
Tibet activists launched a new report today directed at the Chinese Communist Party’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, challenging him to take “immediate steps towards a just and lasting resolution to the occupation of Tibet, or face greater international condemnation and domestic instability.”
Tibet activists in Dharamshala today issued a ‘Tibet Challenge’ to China’s leader in waiting Xi Jinping, confronting him to acknowledge four generations of Chinese leadership’s policy failures in Tibet.
Chinese courts in eastern Tibet have sentenced two teenaged Tibetan monks from the beleaguered Kirti Monastery in Ngaba to lengthy jail terms on currently unknown charges. The two have been identified as Lobsang Tsultrim 19 and Lobsang Jangchup 17.
