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The “one-party authoritarian state” of China continues to impose “sharp curbs on freedom of expression, association, and religion; openly rejects judicial independence and press freedom

Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay has urged China not to interfere in matters concerning the long-standing relationship between India and Tibet.

China has placed around a dozen special security checkpoints en route to the Tibetan capital Lhasa from neighbouring Nepal to scrutinise and investigate Tibetan pilgrims returning back from Indian and Nepal.

Three Tibetan school students began a cycle rally for Tibet from the Tibetan settlement of Bylakuppe in the south Indian state of Karnataka to the Indian capital city New Delhi, yesterday.

Amidst the alarming consistency with which China has been sending its dissenting writers and legal activists to lengthy jail terms, another of its writers is planning to seek asylum in the US.

A global survey on political rights and civil liberties has placed Tibet, along with Western Sahara, as the two worst-rated territories in the world. The findings of Freedom in the World 2012, also gave China a downward trend arrow

Tibet will be facing yet another cut-off from the outside world beginning mid-February through March, according to reports. The ban encompasses two important events; the Tibetan New Year from February 22-24 and the Tibetan national uprising day commemorated on March 10.

A sitting member of the 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has resigned citing personal reasons. Geshe Yungdrung Gyaltsen, member of the 15th Parliament from Do-Toe province submitted his resignation dated January 1, 2012, according to a report on the official Parliamentary Secretariat website.

Scarce details have emerged on the fate of Tibetans arrested last year in Ngaba, following the fiery wave of self-immolations that continues to engulf the region. A Tibetan native of Ngaba, arrested early last year, was sentenced to three years in jail in January.

Two abbots and seven monks of Karma monastery in the Tibetan city of Chamdo were arrested late October 2011 for refusing to denounce Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Abbots, Lodoe Rabsel, 40 and Namsey Sonam, 44, along with seven other monks