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Thirty-two Tibetans detained in Tihar jail on January 30 for demonstrating outside the Chinese embassy were released yesterday evening. They had been on hunger strike for three consecutive days since their detention.

A Tibetan refugee living in India holds a placard condemning the recent execution of a Tibetan, during a 24 hour protest hunger-strike in Bombay January 31, 2003. The hunger-strikers were protesting against the execution of Lobsang Dhondup, convicted by China of setting off bombs and inciting terrorism. Despite protests from international rights groups, Dhondup was executed on Sunday. Photo by Arko Datta

Participants in ICT's 2002 TYLP in Washington, D.C.

ICT-Europe will hold the inaugural Tibetan Youth Leadership Program in Brussels, Belgium, from 4 July – 9 July 2003. Designed for young Tibetans in Europe, this exciting program will see experts from around the world encourage and train young

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on priorities and recommendations for the 59th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on 29 January which called upon the European Union (EU) “to strongly condemn - in a resolution on

The Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies has condemned the recent execution of Lobsang Dhondup, accused of plotting bomb blast in Tibet.

Tibetans living-in-exile in Dharamsala town on Thursday condemned the execution of a Tibetan activist on charges of setting off bombs and inciting separatism in China. The 28-year-old religious leader Lobsong Dhondup was executed

Tibetan activists on Thursday questioned holding the 2008 Olympics in Beijing after China executed a Tibetan over a series of bombings. Lobsang Dhondup, a 28-year-old farmer, was executed Sunday over an April bomb attack in Sichuan province that killed one and injured another

The Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir is seeing unrest over a death sentence awarded to a Tibetan Buddhist leader by Chinese authorities.

Poland on Thursday condemned the execution this week of a Tibetan convicted of a series of bomb blasts. "The republic of Poland joins the international community to condemn the execution of Lobsang Dhondup," the Polish foreign ministry said in a statement.