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In confirmed reports coming out of Tibet, a teenage Tibetan nun set her body on fire raising slogans against the Chinese government in Ngaba, eastern Tibet today. The nun has been indetified as Tenzin Choedron, 18 from the Mamae Dechen Choekhorling nunnery.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao met with Gyaltsen Norbu, the government installed XIth Panchen Lama Friday and pledged “greater” religious freedom and cultural protection in Tibet.

A motion condemning the Chinese security forces’ “unwarranted use” of force on unarmed Tibetan protesters and calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to make a public statement of concern on the “deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet” was tabled

In growing international attention on the prevailing climate of violence and repression in Tibet, members of the United States Congress have issued statements urging President Obama to raise Tibet

Speaking at a public felicitation ceremony held in his honour in the north Indian town of Dharamshala, the South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu promised his ‘good friend’ the Dalai Lama that he will see him again in a “free Tibet”.

The ongoing protests in Tibet are now spilling onto other adjoining regions with peaceful demonstrations now being reported from the Nangchen region of eastern Tibet.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people shares a light moment with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the courtyard of Tsug-la Khang during a public welcome ceremony held in honour of Archbishop Tutu's first visit to the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala on February 10, 2012. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

There are reports of yet another self-immolation that took place yesterday in the Keygudo (Ch: Yushu) region of eastern Tibet. Although initial reports are scare, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has identified the Tibetan as Sonam Rabyang, a monk in his late thirties from the La Monastery in Tridu, Keygudo.

Phayul is getting confirmed reports that Chinese security personnel hunted down and killed a Tibetan who had suffered bullet wounds in the January 23 protests in Drango along with his brother earlier today.

The man who set himself on fire yesterday in the besieged Ngaba region of eastern Tibet has been identified as 19-year old Rigzin Dorje alias Rigpe from the Garpa Tsongko household in Me’uruma township and the youngest of six siblings