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It has been decades since calls for greater independence in Tibet have been so vocal. Now acts of defiance against Chinese rule in the region are springing up all over the world

Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Tibetan immigrants protesting Chinese control of their homeland vowed to make San Francisco, the only U.S. city to host the Olympic torch relay, the focal

Tibetans arrested from Barkhor in Lhasa are under fear of torture and inhuman treatment, a Tibetan rights body said on Tuesday. The group also said it received the names of four of the

Exiled Tibetans, accompanied by supporters, walk along the hilly road on the outskirts of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in India, on the second day of their return march to Tibet. The “100 Core Marchers” on Tuesday morning braved Indian police order, served late Monday night, restraining them from leaving the local district to continue with their march. The marchers are determined to cover 20kms each day. The marchers were Tuesday still 40kms from the district border and were uncertain when the police would stop them. (Photo by Tenzin Dasel / Phayul.com)

Protesters gathered Monday in Union Square for the 49th Tibetan National Uprising Day. Organizers stood on a stage and led an audience of hundreds, many waving Tibetan flags

Around 300 people gathered in Marseille (France) to commemorate the Tibetan Uprising Day. This year, the demonstration has a specific angle: to publicly contest the Beijing Olympics and support

A group of Tibetans on Monday lit a symbolic flame at Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, to protest against their country's occupation by China, host of this year’s Olympics.

The head of China's regional government in Tibet confirmed Tuesday that about 300 Tibetan monks staged a protest march this week in the capital of Lhasa but said authorities diffused the incident without arrests.

Yesterday at the Seventh Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Society for Threatened Peoples, a Non-Governmental Organisation based in Germany, criticized Nepal as a country which maintains