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Torture and indiscriminate beatings by Chinese prison guards has maimed the body of a Tibetan monk, causing waist-down paralysis. Lobsang Khedup, 39, a monk from the Kirti monastery was arrested last year and given a three-year prison term

Hundreds of Tibetans carried out day-long protests and candle light vigils in Ngaba yesterday calling for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and demanding freedom in Tibet. Scores of Tibetans suffered indiscriminate beatings and arrests.

A new report has warned that unless the Chinese authorities ease the restrictions placed on the Tibetan people there are serious concerns that self-immolation will remain the only avenue for Tibetans to voice their desperation and frustration.

Security personnel in Drango, eastern Tibet celebrated the Chinese new year firing at a crowd of unarmed protesting Tibetans earlier today. Reports coming out of Drango region confirm the death of at least one Tibetan with many suffering serious injuries.

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