Breaking: Tibetan man dies in self-immolation protest, Leaves message of pride and unity
In reports coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan man has set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet, taking Tibet’s self-immolation toll to 53.
Fears over Jigme Gyatso’s re-arrest after disappearance
The New York based media rights watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over a missing Tibetan filmmaker after fears that he has been rearrested. Tibetan monk Golok Jigme Gyatso was first arrested in March 2008
For ‘contacting outsiders’ two Tibetans sentenced to over 7 years
Two Tibetans in eastern Tibet have been found “guilty” of “contacting with outsiders” and sentenced to several years in prison by a Chinese court. The Intermediate People’s Court in Barkham sentenced a lay Tibetan, Thupdor, 25, to seven and a half years in prison and Lobsang Tashi, 26, a monk from
New report challenges Xi Jinping to address Tibet crisis
Tibet activists launched a new report today directed at the Chinese Communist Party’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, challenging him to take “immediate steps towards a just and lasting resolution to the occupation of Tibet, or face greater international condemnation and domestic instability.”