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This file photograph shows Buddhist nun Ngawang Sangdrol and her niece in Tibet's capital Lhasa after her release Drapchi Prison.(AFP/File)

The release of the longest-held female Tibetan prisoner could signal a change in policy by the Chinese government and a new willingness to engage exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in dialogue, a leading rights campaigner said.

Ngawang Sangdrol, one of Tibet's most famous political prisoners, arrived in the United States today five months after her parole from Lhasa's Drapchi prison. At age 26, Sangdrol had already served 11 years in prison.

Ngawang Sangdrol holds up a picture of the Dalai Lama after arriving in Washington, D.C. (Photo by ICT)

The Central Tibetan Administration welcomes the Chinese authorities' permission for Ngawang Sangdrol to fly to the United States for medical treatment. She arrived in Chicago on 28 March.

The new representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Australia Mr. Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha met with the Austrailian Parliamentary Group for Tibet on 26th March. The briefing was held in the Austrailian Parliament and was attended by

Another positive gesture from Beijing was marked today with allowing of Tibet's erstwhile longest serving female political prisoner to leave for United States. Ngawang Sangdrol, a Tibetan nun released earlier on medical parole by China

A Buddhist leader speaking at today's World Peace Forum in Sydney says the violence at this week's student anti-war rallies shows the widespread confusion over the concept of peace.

A Tibetan nun who was China's longest-serving female political prisoner traveled to the United States Friday, a U.S.-based activist said. Ngawang Sangdrol flew to the United States accompanied by a U.S. diplomat, said John Kamm

Switzerland could be the venue for dialogue between China and Tibet, a Swiss MP has said. "Time has come that there should be a substantial dialogue between the Dalai Lama and China.