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Human Rights in China (HRIC) called today for the urgent release of prominent Inner-Mongolian prisoner of conscience Hada. Deemed to be "resisting reform," Hada is reported to be routinely subjected to torture and ill-treatment, and held under a particularly harsh disciplinary regimen at Chifeng Prison, Inner Mongolia.

The BJP has demanded identification and deportation of illegal immigrants, who are allegedly "causing population explosion" in the region.

On 24 October 2004, the 71 year-old Tibetan writer Yidam Tsering passed away in Lanzhou city, Gansu Province. Yidam Tsering only wrote in Chinese but his work was translated into Tibetan and was widely read.

Three Nepalese who helped smuggle 30 kilograms (65 pounds) of heroin into Tibet were sentenced Tuesday to long prison terms, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The Central Tibetan Administration will give 160000 rupees as relief to the families affected by yesterday's fire. This was announced by the acting Kalon Tripa Thupten Lungrik at a meeting with the members of the shopkeepers' association today.

Amid reports from Chinese sources of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's execution sentence being revoked and changed to life-imprisonment, Downtown Berkeley resounded with slogans and music for a Free Tibet as over a hundred Tibetans and supporters gathered for another evening of candle light vigil and inspirational music.

China's massive programme to build roads all along the border in Tibet and into the sub-continent has finally woken up India and Bhutan. Over the last decade, China nearly doubled the length of its road transport network in Tibet to nearly 40,000 km.

In a lengthy essay, entitled "Tibet Facing Imperialism of Two Kinds: An Analysis of the Woeser Incident", Wang Lixiong, one of Mainland China's foremost researchers on Tibet, argues that the persecution of Woser, a Tibetan writer

An Indian team will visit Beijing later this month for talks with Chinese authorities. The two sides will discuss the structural measures required on Parechu river in Tibet to prevent floods.

As many as 10 shops, most of them selling garments and antiques, one restaurant and a hotel, all belonging to Tibetans, were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the McLeodganj market at 3.30 am today.