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Item 9: Question of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Oral statement by Mr. Ngawang CHOEPHEL, Society for Threatened Peoples

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)

His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

With the death on March 26, 2003, of former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan at age 76, the Tibetan people lost a good and steadfast friend. "Senator Moynihan was a great friend of the Tibetan people and during his tenure on the Foreign Relations Committee expressed his support

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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. (TIA ANN CHAPMAN/)

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.

(Photo: Tibet.Net)