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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

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.

Tibetans in Dharamsala protest the Chinese execution of Lobsang Dhondup. The protest march from Mcleod Ganj to Kacheri, Lower Dharamsala, was jointly organised by Ghu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet, Tibetan Youth Congress, and Tibetan Women's Association. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 (Photo: Tenam)

Tibetan nuns Ani Changchup Khando, front, and Ani Tsering Chodon are helped to the hotel ballroom stage to lead a Buddhist chant. (Photos Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)

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