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Tsomoling Dawa, a staunch Tibetan activist, a former political prisoner died at his home on 22 February 2004 in Lhasa, according to reports from Tibet.

The US State Department today released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices that tracks governments’ practices during the year, based primarily on information from US embassy officials but also attained from non-governmental organizations.

QUESTION 1, MP Olav Gunnar Ballo (SLP): I have the following questions to the Foreign Minister: On the 2nd December 2002 the Tibetan Buddhist Tenzin Delek Rinpoche was sentenced to death by the Chinese authorities and has since then been imprisoned.

Louise Arbour, Canadian Supreme Court justice, was named by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the UN’s new high commissioner for human rights.

With "Shangsho-Shangsho", the wake up call for the Marchers, at 3 am, hushed-up one and all into frantic activities. In quick succession, morning chores were completed, so does the loading of the baggage into the truck.

To wait more than 50 years for freedom is exquisite torture - that's wearily familiar to the millions of Tibetans who have lived under Chinese oppression since they were invaded in 1949.

The Special Envoy of Tibet's Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, gave extensive details of the massive religious and human rights abuses being inflicted on the Tibetan people by the communist People's Republic of China government (PRC).

His eyes are black as night. They have seen much. Stare into them. Drift back, to the Land of Snows. Pencho Rabgey is seven. He is a Tibetan monk. "It was not for religion at first," he tells me.

The 7th Central Executive Committee members of TWA are happy to announce the establishment of yet another international regional chapter in Denver, Colorado.

Leaders of Boston's Tibetan community yesterday rallied around a 25-year-old refugee accused of a $105,000 credit card theft scheme based at a Cape Cod gas station.