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Last weekend Students for Free Tibet, France organised a two-day Tibet Film Festival in Paris, in collaboration with the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

In his ‘Losar’ Tibetan New Year message, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay has said the exile administration is “extremely worried” over the “grim” news coming out of Tibet.

Living up to its infamous tag of being one of the most repressive regimes for writers and journalists, China has once again arrested a Tibetan writer on unclear charges.

The fiery wave of self-immolation in Tibet continues to rage on with three Tibetans torching their bodies last week alone. Nangdrol set himself on fire calling for ‘freedom for Tibet’.

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will preside over the early morning Losar, Tibetan New Year official ceremony on February 22 at Tsug-la Khang, at the main temple in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala.

In a clear case of deep seated political influence over the judiciary in China, a Chinese court in Tibet issued an arrest warrant against a Tibetan who had already been lying in the jail for over four months.

The three Tibetan students who have been pedaling across the major cities and towns in India for exactly a month now, reached the Indian commercial capital Mumbai last week.

Amidst the ongoing self-immolations, another teenaged Tibetan in Tibet set himself on fire and is reportedly dead. The 18 year old teenaged Tibetan, Nya Drul set himself on fire today in the afternoon in Amdo Ngaba,

China on Thursday arbitrarily arrested three monks from a Tibetan monastery in the Tridu region of eastern Tibet according to the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile.

Yet another Tibetan has died in the continuing wave of self-immolation in Tibet. Dhamchoe Sangpo, a monk from Bongthak Ewam Tare Shedrup Dhargey Ling monastery in the Tsongon region of Amdo, eastern Tibet set his body on fire at around 6 am local time in an apparent protest against the Chinese government.