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A rare video footage smuggled out from Tibet shows the alarming level of repression and heavy-handed police brutality that Tibetans suffer under China’s occupation.

Hundreds of Tibetans and foreigners gathered at Tsug-la Khang in Dharamshala, Saturday for a muted commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize on His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Hundreds of Tibetans and foreigners gathered at Tsug-la Khang in Dharamshala, Saturday for a muted commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize on His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Seventeen Tibetans under the banner of the Tibetan Youth Congress today stormed Hotel Maurya Sheraton in the Indian capital New Delhi where a visiting Chinese military delegation headed by General Ma Xiaotian was holding a meeting.

An agony that many Tibetan and Tibet supporters continue to suffer has now come to the fore. The TIME magazine has put the “Self-Immolation of Tibetan Monks” as the number one “underreported story” for the year 2011.

Tenzin Phuntsok, 46, who set himself ablaze on December 1 in Chamdo, Tibet, passed away in a Chinese military hospital on Tuesday. Reports indicate that Tenzin Phuntsok’s wife Dolma has been arrested by Chinese security personnel.

Following media reports claiming that the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s name has been included in a chargesheet filed by the police, the Karmapa Office of Administration in a release today clarified that they were yet to receive any “official or court notice”.

Following media reports claiming that the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s name has been included in a chargesheet filed by the police, the Karmapa Office of Administration in a release today clarified that they were yet to receive any “official or court notice”.

A Tibetan monk who was arrested in March 2008 and later sentenced to 15 years in prison is being described in “critical health condition”. 34-year old Thapkay Gyatso was arrested during the widespread Tibetan uprisings

The Tibetan Department of Health is all set to release its first of a kind full-length feature film on generating awareness on substance abuse and tuberculosis in the Tibetan community.