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Nepali police in Kathmandu were out in full force, randomly arresting common Tibetans, as well as the head of the Tibetan Welfare Office, yesterday as a preventive measure to avoid anti-China protests in the city.

With news coming in of yet another monk setting himself on fire in Rebkong, eastern Tibet, the fiery wave of self-immolation protests dominated the first day of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile’s budget session which began yesterday.

With confirmed reports of yet another fiery protest in Tibet earlier today, taking the toll of self-immolations to 28, major western countries have expressed serious concerns over the situation inside Tibet at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council 19th Session in Geneva.

Reports of beatings, arrests and monks being expelled from monasteries continue to flow out of Tibet as the entire region reels under, what rights groups have called, an undeclared martial law. On March 7, Khedup Dorjee, 38, a monk at Za-Samdrup Monastery in Kardze, was severely beaten

Reports of yet another self-immolation by a monk in Rebkong in the traditional Amdo region are coming out of Tibet. Jamyang Palden, 34 a monk at the Rongwo monastery in Rebkong set himself on fire in an apparent protest against the Chinese government earlier today.

Seventeen Tibetan nuns from eight nunneries in India and Nepal attended a seven-day training in Dharamshala organised by the Tibetan Women’s Association. Nuns Leadership Training concluded with a panel discussion

The Nepali police arrested six Tibetans on Saturday March 10 outside the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu for carrying out a protest to mark the 53rd anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day.

Many monasteries in Tibet have been forced to hand over administration to communist party cadres while some monasteries are facing a shut down due to boycott by monks following increased repression and control

A senior United Nations officer pledged to contact UN Secretary General and Human Rights Commissioner, after meeting the three Tibetan hunger strikers on their 20th day of indefinite fast outside the UN Headquarters.

A teenaged Tibetan monk in eastern Tibet burned himself to death in an apparent protest against China’s rule on March 10, the day marking the 53rd anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprisings. Gepey, an 18-year-old monk from the Kirti Monastery in the beleaguered Ngaba region set himself