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Amnesty International today expressed dismay at reports that Lobsang Dhondup was executed yesterday following his conviction in a secret trial for involvement in a series of bombings in Sichuan province.

The German foreign ministry on Monday expressed its "grave concern" at the execution of a Tibetan activist convicted after a string of bomb blasts in southwestern China, saying it contradicted assurances which China had given the European Union.

Your Excellency, Following up on my appeal to Your Excellency on December 10, 2002 regarding the unfair trials and denial of legal due process to Tulku Tenzin Delek, a prominent Tibetan spiritual leader and Lobsang Dhondup

The Yangtze River, with its long and storied place in the epic history of China, is host to a domestic controversy unlike any other in the nation – a mammoth water project that will fully submerge over 150 towns.

Police in western China have executed a Tibetan for a string of bomb attacks in support of Tibetan independence, despite an international outcry over the fairness of his trial.

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is outraged to learn that Chinese authorities executed Lobsang Dhondup after a secret re-trial at the Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court. The court also upheld the death sentence passed down to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential Buddhist leader.

The Higher People's Court of Sichuan Province in Chengdu confirmed on Sunday 26 January 2003 the death sentences given to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and his aide and relative Lobsang Thondup.

Lobsang Dhondup, one of the two Tibetans earlier sentenced to death by a Chinese court on December 2, was executed in Kandze, reports AP.

Lobsang Samten works on the third layer of this sand painting he constructed recently at the Holter Museum. At the center of the painting is a pig, rooster, and a snake representing the three afflictive emotions, which are lack of understanding reality, greed, and anger. (By Jon Ebelt IR Staff Photographer)

They warned Lobsang Samten that America was like a paper tiger: It may shimmer and shake, but in the end it will do nothing for you. They said it was China that made Tibet great, building roads and schools to align the ancient seat of Buddhism with the modern world.