A Tibetan monk was shot by Chinese police today after he set himself on fire at 1:40pm Beijing Time in Ngaba town (Chinese: Aba) in eastern Tibet. According to eyewitnesses, Tape, a monk in his 20's from Kirti monastery, was shouting slogans and carrying a homemade Tibetan flag with an image of the Dalai Lama on it when he set himself on fire at the crossroads of the main market. Eyewitness reports indicate the police fired three shots at Tape after he set himself on fire. At least one of the bullets made contact.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at 11 a.m. Bob Fu, President and Founder of ChinaAid, spoke at a press conference at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. regarding U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s controversial remarks over the past week indicating a retreat on the priority of human rights issues in U.S.-China relations.

Da un paio di giorni tutte le comunicazioni sono interrotte ed è molto difficile avere un quadro completo della situazione.
Stamane ho parlato con uno di Kardze che mi ha detto che ieri quasi tutti i negozi erano aperti in segno di sfida alle ordinanze dei cinesi.
I monasteri ( nelle vicinanze di Kardze ce ne sono almeno 30 ) hanno rifiutato il denaro offerto dai comunisti per celebrare il Losar e in giro c’era pochissima gente.
Nei villaggi della contea non si sono uditi gli abituali scoppi dei fuochi di artificio e non ci sono stati festeggiamenti di sorta.

What would be the most festive event of the year, the Tibetan New Year known as Losar this year has been a quiet and sombre moment as repression inside Tibet has been intensified in the weeks leading up to a series of sensitive anniversaries. In Dharamshala at 11am today, 50 Tibetans began a three day hunger strike organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress to express solidarity with our Tibetan brethrens inside Tibet and protest the gross human rights violations inside Tibet.

Inside Tibet people have made the decision not to celebrate Losar this year. It appears to be not just an expression of sorrow for those Tibetan shot, tortured and imprisoned in last years uprising, but also an act of defiance against the Chinese government that wants to show the world that Tibetans enjoy religious and cultural freedoms under its rule. In exile there has been some debate on whether or not to celebrate Losar. There are valid arguments on both sides, but then again the logic of revolution is another thing altogether. When the struggle calls we can only obey.

Tibetan Youth Congress Organized a peaceful demonstration against PRC Chinese rule in Tibet and ongoing Human Righs Violation in Tibet which is the first phase of protest to boycott this year Tibetan New Year to give tribute to our brave Tibetan men and women who had lost their life in last year peaceful protest.According to Tibetan Calender,on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth month. That is the day before the Tibetan New Year's Eve. On that day the monasteries do a protector deities' puja (a special kind of ritual) and begin preparations for the Losar celebrations.

Tibetan demonstrators sets off the effigy of Chinese president Hu Jintao on fireworks during an anti-China demonstration in the Nepalese Capital Kathmandu .
As part of a religious ritual performed by Tibetans to ward-off evils two days before the commencement of their lunar New Year or Losar, which begins Wednesday, demonized effigies of Chinese leaders were put on fire. Tibetan exiles around the world vowed to boycott their New Year celebrations as they want to remember those who died in last year's anti-China unrests.

New York, Feb 24: More than 500 strong crowds of Tibetans on Monday evening braved the freezing cold and gusting wind to hold an anti-China demonstration in front of the Chinese Consulate in New York to dumb ““Mao-Hu-Wen” gu-lu.Nyishu-Gu-Lu, as it is called in Tibetan, is a dough-made figure representing evil spirit to be exorcised as part of a religious ritual to ward off misfortune and obstruction to mark the end of a year and to prepare for an auspicious start of another year.The ritual is performed on the 29th Day (Nyishu-gu) of the 12th Lunar month, which is a day before the eve of the Ti

Dharamshala: TibetPost-23-Feb-09-Yeshe Lhadon, 24 years old, Tibetan nun, from Tsangshi village Karze district eastern Tibet daughter of Ngoedup Sonam and Yangtso Dolma, is feared to be dead because of the severe torture that she suffered after peaceful protested that she enacted with two of her friends on 28th May 2008 in Karze district.

Businessmen and economists inside and outside China are now talking about the gap between the official economic statistics put forward by the Chinese regime and China's real economic performance. Behind this new attention to the regime's questionable statistics lies concerns about the possibility of an economic and political collapse in China.

73 minatori sono rimasti uccisi nell’ennesima esplosione in una miniera cinese situata nei pressi della città di Taiyuan.
113 i feriti di cui 21 versano in gravi condizioni.
Nel corso del 2008 sono deceduti oltre 4000 minatori per la totale assenza di misure di sicurezza e per i turni di lavoro massacranti.

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As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton started the China leg of her inaugural trip on Feb. 20, petitioners from all over China gathered in Beijing to use the event as another opportunity to make themselves heard.
Because of the coming Chinese National Congress, many petitioners have recently returned to Beijing. But many of them have changed their strategy this year—instead of going through the normal channels such as visiting the appeals office or delivering their letters to Supreme Courts, which have netted no results—they now have taken to organized actions.

HEILONGJIANG – Mrs. Cheng Fengying’s house was seized illegally in January 2009 by officials from the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) after years of continual persecution. Cheng Fenying, 54, is a preacher and evangelist. She, her husband Xie Tongxing and her 25-year-old son Xie Chengwei hosted a house church in their home with more than 200 members, but government officials threatened each believer to keep them away from the house church.

Cheng Fengying sent the following letter on February 17, 2009:

According to the latest information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Chinese authorities in Lithang County have significantly beefed up security measures by bringing more forces amidst severe restriction imposed on the movement of the people in Lithang following days of protests.