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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.

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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

Boulder sources yesterday confirmed that Tibetan monk Lobsang Dhondup was executed by Chinese authorities after a secret re-trail in China's Sichuan province Saturday.

The Tibetan Government in-Exile and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) today expressed deep shock over the reported execution of Lobsang Dhondup, a religious leader of Tibetans

Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell renewed calls for the abolition of the death penalty in China following the execution of Lobsang Dhondup and the sentencing to death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.

Spokespersons for the United States Government, both at the State Department in Washington, D.C., and the American Embassy in Beijing, have expressed concern at the execution of Lobsang Dhondup

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Tibetan exiles staged a rally in the Indian capital Tuesday to protest the execution in China of a compatriot convicted of a series of bomb blasts. Some 80 Tibetan men and women marched to the mausoleum of Mahatma Gandhi

Congressman Frank Wolf said during an interview with BBC today that the execution of Lobsang Dhondup following a secret trial on January 26 "does not bode well for the overall friendship" between China and the United States.