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In further boost to calls for establishing a special European Union coordinator for Tibet, a Member of the European Parliament on Thursday said that such a move will reaffirm EU’s strategy to support human rights and democracy.

In continuing crackdown on the spate of self-immolation protests inside Tibet, Chinese authorities have arrested seven Tibetans from the Dokarmo region of eastern Tibet in separate incidents. Those arrested include relatives and friends of Tibetan self-immolators

In what could be seen as a further push for establishing an international mechanism on the crisis in Tibet, US cited Tibet as an area where the EU and US can partner on “common strategic engagement.” The remarks were made by US Under Secretary Maria Otero

A new documentary narrating personal stories of Tibetan self-immolators was released by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala, Wednesday.

Eight Tibetan students of the Sorig Lobling medical school in Chabcha, eastern Tibet have been sentenced to five years in prison even as the school continues to remain under strict surveillance for the third straight week.

An authoritative group of Tibet experts submitted a letter to China’s president in waiting, Xi Jinping, expressing their “deep concern” about the state of the Tibetan language in China occupied Tibet. Renowned Tibetologists

As you will be assuming your new role as President of the People’s Republic of China in March 2013, the scientific community of Tibetologists would like to express to you its deep concern about the state of the Tibetan language in the Tibet Autonomous Region and in the Tibetan autonomous prefectures in neighboring provinces.

In 2012, China put more journalists behind bars than last year and retained its spot, for over a decade now, as one the worst jailors of press according to a new report. The New York based Committee to Protect Journalists in its annual report on imprisoned journalists said the worldwide tally reached the highest since

The exile Tibetan administration challenged China to prove their assertions after Beijing laid out fresh charges against Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration of inciting self-immolations in Tibet. CTA said it was ready for a probe by the Chinese authorities and invited them

Tibetans all over the world marked the 64th International Human Rights Day December 10 with major protest rallies demanding immediate international intervention in the Tibet crisis. The exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala echoed with loud slogans of ‘Free Tibet,’ ‘Long live the Dalai Lama,’