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Popular Indian actor Aamir Khan (left), Rev. Dada J.P. Vaswani (centre) and Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama after an interactive session titled 'Ru-ba-ru Roshni' celebrating the 95th birthday of Dada Vaswani at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission in Pune, Maharashtra, India on July 28, 2013. (Photo/OHHDL/Tenzin Choejor)

Four Tibetan petitioners who had travelled to China’s capital Beijing requesting for the release of Tulku Tenzin Delek, a highly ranked Tibetan spiritual leader currently serving life-sentence, have been arrested.

The United States has said that it would seek improvements in China’s human rights record, including its treatment of ethnic minorities, during talks on human rights next week. The United States and China are scheduled to hold their annual dialogue on human rights on Tuesday and Wednesday in the southern city of Kunming

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Friday said that autonomy for Tibet is a way of brining an end to the ongoing wave of self-immolations while hinting at signs from China that could give a “new lease of life” to stalled negotiations between Beijing and Dharamshala.

A new county established in Tibet on Friday has become the world’s highest county-level administrative unit, China’s state-run Xinhuanews agency said. Shuanghu County, with an average elevation of 5,000 metres, is being billed as the world’s highest county-level administrative unit by China.

Leaflets calling for Tibet’s independence and the long life of Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama have been found scattered on a mountain top in Kardze region of eastern Tibet. A large number of local Tibetans had gathered on the mountain top on July 21

More than a dozen Tibetans, including the mother of Tibetan self-immolator Kunchok Sonam, his relatives, teacher, and monks of the Thangkor Sogtsang Monastery were arbitrarily detained by Chinese security forces following the young monk’s fiery protest on July 20.

Chinese troops made yet another attempt to violate the international border at Chumar area in Ladakh region of north India on July 20, taking the number of incursions well above a dozen since April. Chinese troops had climbed a small mountain when they were confronted

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to take part in an interactive session with spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Rev. Dada JP Vaswani, hosted by popular Indian actor Aamir Khan on Sunday July 28 in Pune.

Internet control in China has become even more sophisticated and pervasive under the leadership of the country’s new Communist Party bosses headed by President Xi Jinping, a new report has found out. Freedom House made the revelations in a special report