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The European Parliament during its session on resolution on the EUs rights, priority and recommendations for the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (17 March to 25 April 2003) adopted the following Tibet related resolution today, 30th January 2003.

A report issued on 25 January 2003 by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua praises the 'Regulations on the Study, Use and Development of the Tibetan Language' as one of the major achievements of the out-going 7th People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

A joint demostration taken out yesterday at 11 AM by three Dharamsala-based Tibetan NGOs; Tibetan Women's Association(TWA), Tibetan Youth Congress(TYC) and Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet; outside the Chinese embassy in Delhi.

Sara Smith gave a "feather blessing" and called upon her Native American ancestors. Rabbi Laura Geller recited from the Jewish mourning prayer. Sana Afandi chanted the opening verse of Islam's holy book. And Mae Chee Sansanee, a Buddhist nun, led a group meditation.

The secretive leader of a minority separatist group said his East Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO) will “inevitably” form a military wing to target the Chinese government.

Expressing condemnation and grief over the execution of a Tibetan, Lobsang Dhondup on January 26, 2003 in Chinese occupied Tibet, three prominent Dharamsala-based Tibetan NGOs took out a joint demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy in Delhi today at 11 AM.

Thirty six Tibetans in New Delhi were arrested today as they held a peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy against China’s execution of a Tibetan and the upholding of the suspended death sentence on another.

Photo by Tsering T. Chatsug

Thirty three Tibetans, 25 men and 8 women including a nun, arrested today for demonstrating in front of the Chinese embassy in Delhi against the execution of Lobsang Dhondup in Chinese occupied Tibet were shifted to the high security prison Tihar jail

Tibetans, Tibet supporters and human rights activists gathered in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., on January 28 to protest the secret trial and execution of Lobsang Dhondup and the death sentence imposed on a prominent Tibetan monk, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche on January 26.