Major western powers raise Tibet at UN Human Rights Council
With confirmed reports of yet another fiery protest in Tibet earlier today, taking the toll of self-immolations to 28, major western countries have expressed serious concerns over the situation inside Tibet at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council 19th Session in Geneva.
Severe beatings and arrests continue in Tibet
Reports of beatings, arrests and monks being expelled from monasteries continue to flow out of Tibet as the entire region reels under, what rights groups have called, an undeclared martial law. On March 7, Khedup Dorjee, 38, a monk at Za-Samdrup Monastery in Kardze, was severely beaten
Fire rages on in Tibet: A monk in Rebkong self-immolates
Reports of yet another self-immolation by a monk in Rebkong in the traditional Amdo region are coming out of Tibet. Jamyang Palden, 34 a monk at the Rongwo monastery in Rebkong set himself on fire in an apparent protest against the Chinese government earlier today.