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The exile Tibetan administration has called for May 17 to be observed as ‘Tibet Solidarity Day’ and appealed for “expressions of solidarity involving people’s elected representatives, local government or holding an activity as deemed appropriate.”

Indian and Tibetan students carried out a street protest against China’s incursion in Indian territory today at the McLeod Ganj Square in Dharamshala. The protest action also called for Tibet’s independence to ensure India’s security.

The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile yesterday wrote to French President Francois Hollande, thanking him for raising the issue of Tibet and human rights during his recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. In the letter, Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel expressed “deep appreciation”

French President Francois Hollande, who on Thursday became the first western leader to meet China’s new President Xi Jinping in Beijing, said his talks touched upon the issue of Tibet where as many as 117 known cases of self-immolations have occurred.

The Human Rights Committee of the German parliament, the Bundestag, passed a joint declaration expressing deep alarm over the continuing wave of self-immolations in Tibet and urging the German government to work for the improvement of the situation in the region.

In memory of the 10th Panchen Lama, the Dharamshala based National Democratic Party of Tibet yesterday screened a biopic on the late Panchen Lama Lobsang Lhundrup Choekyi Gyaltsen at the TCV Day School in the exile Tibetan headquarters. Over a hundred Tibetans including Members of Parliament

As the French President Francois Hollande heads to China on a state visit, first of such since Xi Jinping takes over the reign as the Chinese president, a survey by a leading French poll house shows that almost 70% of the French people wants their president to raise the situation of Human Rights and civil liberties

A senior Nepalese leader has promised China’s President Xi Jinping that the Himalayan country will “repress” Tibetan refugees living in Nepal who are involved in free Tibet activities. Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, Chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

More than 20 Buddhist nuns from across India took part in a week-long empowerment programme organised by the Dharamshala based Tibetan Women’s Association, the largest women’s group in the exile Tibetan community. The 5th Annual Buddhist Nun Empowerment Programme

In reports coming just in, two young Tibetan monks of the Tagtsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery in Zoege, eastern Tibet set themselves on fire today protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet. The exile seat of the Kirti Monastery identified the two monks as Lobsang Dawa, 20 and Kunchok Woeser, 22.