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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.

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.

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