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China has once again featured amongst the top countries – along with Iran, Eriteria, and Syria – on an unimpressive list of the world’s worst jailors of journalists. The list drawn by the Committee to Protect Journalists

The first known Tibetan in Tibet to have self-immolated and was feared dead after Chinese security personnel fired shots at him is now believed to be detained in a Chinese army hospital, almost three years after the incidence.

Over 3000 Chinese students went on a rampage Wednesday night, beating Tibetan students and breaking into their dormitories and class rooms in a Chinese vocational institute in Chengdu.

An Oscar winning Hollywood star got a taste of China’s heavy-handed treatment Thursday when he tried to meet a Chinese human rights activist detained at his home in a village barely 80 kms from the nation’s capital.

Chinese police have beaten to death a young Tibetan man in Labrang in Amdo region of eastern Tibet.The incident occurred on December 9, when Chonjor, a Tibetan in his twenties was apprehended by Chinese police while he was riding a motor bike

Chinese security officials have sealed off a fishing village of over 20,000 people in Guangdong province in southern China in one of the most widely covered stand-offs between the public and the police over land dispute.

A former Tibetan political prisoner has taken the initiative to record his own testimony and distribute it in the form of a short video documentary. Lhamo Kyab, 33 was arrested on May 13, 2006 for attempting to fly the banned Tibetan National flag and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Tibetans and supporters across the world commemorated the 63rd Human Rights Day with protest marches and campaigns calling on China to respect the fundamental human rights in Tibet, Saturday.

More than two months after two young Tibetans set their bodies on fire demanding an end to China’s continued occupation of Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile, their photos have finally made its way outside Tibet.

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in his exile hometown of Dharamshala, north India earlier today. Tibetan devotees, including hundreds of new arrivals from Tibet lined up on the streets to give a grand welcome to the Dalai Lama