TYC remembers March 14, 2008 in Delhi
The largest pro-independence organisation of the exile Tibetan community, the Tibetan Youth Congress, organized a series of protest activities from March 10 in the
Protest in Kardze a year after 2008 unrest
Three Tibetan youths were arrested today in Kardze after they protested the Chinese government, a year since last year’s March 14 uprising in Tibet that spread across
Nobel winners to China: Stop abusing Dalai Lama
Nobel Peace Prize winners, human rights activists and such celebrities as Harrison Ford and Gwyneth Paltrow are urging China to “stop naming, blaming and verbally abusing” the Dalai Lama.
Nepal: Displaced Tibetans protest despite heavy-handed police
Since Sunday the Bouda stupa has been surrounded by Nepali riot police to prevent demonstrations on Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of Chinese occupation in Tibet. On the day Tibetans were banned from moving through Kathmandu or access in or out
In Nepal
Nepalese policemen patrol near the Bodhnath Stupa, a Buddhist religious place where majority Tibetans live, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday March 14, 2009. Nepal stepped up security and increased police patrols to control the possibility of protests by Tibetan exiles to mark last year’s crackdown on Tibetans protesting against Chinese rule in Lhasa. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
Chinese police ‘search houses in Lhasa for non-Tibetans’
Security forces across Tibet are conducting extensive searches for “suspicious characters” ahead of Saturday’s anniversary of wide spread riots last March. Mobile phone networks and internet servers have already been shut down so that
Hundreds of Taiwanese rally in support of Tibet
Hundreds of protesters, carrying an enormous portrait of the Dalai Lama, marched through downtown Taipei on Saturday to demand an end to Chinese rule in Tibet, a reflection of the island’s tumultuous relationship with Beijing