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Phuntsog Nyidrol, one of Tibet's most prominent political prisoners and the longest serving female political prisoner, was reportedly released from Lhasa's Drapchi Prison Tuesday, Feb. 24. Nyidrol was due to be released in March 2005.

A benefit concert offering a potpourri of acts playing for a cause can be a dicey proposition. In essence, the variety show format where each musician gets two tunes before getting the hook carries with it the potential for mishap.

A hundred years ago, under the guise of power politics, one of the darkest chapters in British imperial history was written in blood in the snows of Tibet. It was a clash between the greatest and most technologically advanced power in the world and one of the weakest

The last of 14 Tibetan "singing nuns" was released Thursday from a Chinese prison, granted a sentence reduction after nearly 15 years behind bars, a U.S. activist said.

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.