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Fernandes: Critic of China's Tibet policy

Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes is in Beijing on a week-long official tour of China. The two Asian rivals will be reviewing relations that have been marred by a long-running border dispute and mutual distrust.

Showing remnants of the torture he endured as a political prisoner, Palden Gyatso — the second−longest serving political prisoner in Tibet — testified to Chinese human rights violations Friday before a crowd of about 100 students.

A Five member delegation from the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies will meet the ‘All party Indian parliamentary group for Tibet’ (APIPGT) on the 24th of April in Delhi. The Tibetan Assembly delegation is headed by the Vice-Chairperson Ms. Gyari Dolma.

A factory making hydroelectric equipment in China's northern Qinghai province has used a Tibetan political prisoner as forced labor, the London-based Tibet Information Network (TIN) said Saturday.

The DPP says it fully supports the Cabinet's decision to abolish laws governing Mongolian affairs, saying that recognizing Mongolia as an independent state will help strengthen ties between the two countries.

TIN has received confirmation regarding the first known political imprisonment in the large Hydroelectric Equipment Plant west of Xining in Qinghai province (traditionally known as Amdo by Tibetans).

Tibetan refugees stop for rest, after crossing a mountain pass on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Nepalese authorities yesterday handed down jail sentences to 18 Tibetan refugees apprehended by police on April 15th. The group now in prison includes 10 teenagers. Officials in Nepal's Home Ministry have indicated their intention to deport the group of refugees back to Chinese authorities in Tibet.

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