Fifty-ninth session Item 9: Question of Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Oral statement by Mr. TAKNA Jigme Sangpo, International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)
One of the Tibet's most defiant and prominent political prisoners, Ngawang Sangdrol, says that she is lucky to be released from the Drapche prison in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, and to arrive in the Untied States, a land of freedom. She says, "I really feel free now."
This afternoon, Takna Jigme Sangpo, a Tibetan who spend 37 years of imprisonment under Chinese rule in Tibet, testified at the 59th session of the UN Coommission on Human Rights, when the meeting was discussing human rights sitautions around the world.
The venerable Tenzin Gephel, left, Lobsang Gyaltsen, center, and Lobsang Sopa, lead a candlelight walk and vigil on the campus of the University of Connecticut Thursday evening. The three monks are from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y. Students and peace activists said they were not pro- or anti-war, just pro-peace.
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Wrapped in a crimson robe, his smooth face glowing from a candle, the venerable Tenzin Gephel and three other Tibetan monks led a crowd of about 250 on a peace walk through the University of Connecticut campus Thursday night.
No, we're not kidding, the Beastie Boys are really coming to Taipei. This month. And Tibetans get in free. The world's most famous hip-hop trio will perform outdoors in Taipei on Sunday, April 20 in a 12,000 seat capacity arena at the Sungshan Cigarette Factory
