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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).

A Tibetan monk wore a dust mask during a pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya, the site of the Buddha's enlightenment in India. The Tibetan Photo Project offers the first photographs created by Tibetans of their culture endangered by 52 years of brutal rule by the Chinese government. Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang photo.

The Tibetan Photo Project started during the 2000 Mendocino Music Festival when Joe Mickey, a professional photographer, teacher and sports editor for The Mendocino Beacon and the Advocate-News, was introduced to a sponsorship program for monks living in exile in southern India.

Norwell High School student activists hold up a Tibetan Flag at a Human Rights rally on Monday in New York City.

A group of 14 Norwell High School students, accompanied by their principal Stephen Mahoney, were among more than 1,000 young activists to attend a demonstration in New York City Monday to protest human rights abuses.

F W DE KLERK - Former president of South Africa, co-recipient with Nelson Mandela of the Nobel peace prize in 1993. "Right from the beginning I took the view that the international community needs to take strong action against the Saddam Husseins of this world

For the past two weeks, Cornell's East Asia Program has been collaborating with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) in the yearly "Ithaca-Cornell Tibet Weeks" event. The highlight of this week occurred Wednesday evening at Anabel Taylor Hall as world-renowned Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso

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As the Beastie Boys drift towards middle age, Adam Yauch tells the 'Taipei Times' why they're bringing the Tibet cause to Taiwan, and even a little bit about the music. I call up the Tokyo hotel, give the desk clerk the correct alias

From left, "Freddy," concert organizer, Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim, Chen Sheng, singer, and Lennon Hsu, singer from Tizzy Bac, show off their Tibetan Freedom Concert tattoos on their fists during a press conference in Taipei yesterday. (Peter Mah , Taiwan News)