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The execution on January 26 of Lobsang Dondrub, a Tibetan convicted of crimes relating to several bombing incidents in China in 2001 and 2002, and the parallel conviction of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche

Free Tibet Campaign, as part of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) - a global coalition of more than 120 Tibet organisations worldwide - has called on the Greek Foreign Minister Mr Georgios Papandreou to raise the cases of Lobsang Dhondup

Promoting a message of independence through non-violence, three Indiana based Tibet support groups are coordinating a "March for Tibet's Independence" from Bloomington to Indianapolis.

China implemented "highly repressive policies" in 2002, using the global war on terror and a pivotal Communist Party Congress as excuses to violate human rights, a U.S.-based rights watchdog said Tuesday.

As an indication of increasing Chinese interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Hong Kong University is organizing a lecture series entitled "Inside Tibetan Buddhism" that will last from February 15 until June 7, 2003.

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Relations with Tibet took a healthy step forward recently with the Jan. 20 launch of the Taiwan-Tibet Exchange Foundation, a nongovernmental agency charged with handling relations with the Tibetan government-in-exile.

In the wake of recent media reports about a proposed visit of Tibetan delegation to Tibet in March this year, speculations are rife in Dharamsala, the exile Tibetan headquarters since the brutal suppression of Tibet by the PLA troops.

Tibetan parliamentarians (from left) Deputy Chair Dolma Gyari and Venerable Tsering Phuntsok, at ICT's February 10 roundtable on Tibetan democracy.

On February 10 the International Campaign for Tibet sponsored a roundtable on Tibetan Democracy at its office in Washington, D.C. Two visiting Tibetan parliamentarians, Deputy Chair Dolma Gyari and Venerable Tsering Phuntsok, led the discussion