Authorities in Beijing have ramped up security across Tibet following deadly protests last week.The presence of security forces in Serthar is intense.The area is encircled by Chinese police and armed forces and Tibetan movements are restricted.Serthar was among three counties where Tibetans protested against Chinese rule last week and where at least six were killed and 60 injured, some critically. The other counties were Draggo and Dzamthang.Additional troops were moved from Chengdu command region.

Tibetans in Golog turned out in large numbers on Thursday to protest against Chinese rule.At around 11.00 a.m., the Tibetans marched towards the township government in Pema county, pulled down the Chinese flag, put up a Tibetan flag, and displayed a photo of the Dalai Lama.Not long afterward, 16 Chinese police vehicles of different sizes arrived at the town and restricted Tibetan activities.Shops and restaurants in Pema county have been closed and the entire area placed under security lockdown since police foiled an attempt by a local monk to self-immolate.Chinese security forces are stationed

A Tibetan man was arrested for distributing leaflets at Barkhor Square in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.The arrest of Namkha Gyaltsen, aged 25, happened at around 5 pm (Tibet Local Time) on 25 January 2012.Sources informed TCHRD that police officers arrested Namkha Gyaltsen near the Nang-tse-shak building at Barkhor as he distributed leaflets that contained slogans for the swift return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet and freedom for Tibet.Namkha Gyaltsen was born in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province.

Chinese authorities in Tibet are sending in additional security forces and imposing new restrictions in the region after several Tibetans were shot dead by security forces in bloody protests this week.Netizens posted photographs online of army trucks speeding along a highway in the direction of Tibetan regions of China's Sichuan province.In the first incident in Draggo county on Monday, up to six Tibetans were believed killed and more than 30 others injured when security forces fired on protesters, local sources said. Chinese authorities said only one Tibetan was shot dead.

The series of self-immolation protests involving Tibetan monks, nuns, and lay people did not occur in a vacuum. Ever since the 2008 unrest in Tibet, the Chinese government's control of Tibetan life has become significantly restricted.The self-immolations are symptomatic of the greater plight that Tibetans find themselves in throughout the Tibetan plateau.These are some of the conclusions drawn in the 2011 Annual Report on Human Rights Situation in Tibet released by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) here today.

One Tibetan layman, identified as Yonten, has died of gunshot after security officials clamped down on a protest in Drango County in Kandze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, according to information received by TCHRD today.The body of Yonten, a resident of Drango County, is being kept at Drango Monastery.At least three monks from Drango Monastery are seriously injured, although it is not clear whether these injuries were caused by gunshots.The protest occurred on the morning of 23 January 2012 when the Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials arrested many Tibetans in and around Drango on the suspi

A highly respected Tibetan Buddhist monk who had championed the rights of Tibetans died on Sunday after allegedly undergoing torture in Tibet.Geshe Tsultrim Gyatso, who was 51, succumbed to injuries sustained in prison since his arrest in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in July 2011.Gyaltso was incapacitated and looked frail as the authorities handed him over to his family a few days ago following hospitalization.At the end of December, he was taken to a local hospital, owing to severe torture sustained in prison.

About 200 Tibetans gathered on Wednesday in Pema county in Golog to protest Chinese rule.The group consisted mainly of monks from Benza, Achunggya, and Penag monasteries, together with local laypeople.They shouted ‘Let the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet,’ ‘Free the Panchen Lama and all other Tibetan political prisoners,’ and ‘Remember the self-immolated heroes and heroines’.Later, in the afternoon of the same day, people posted and scattered leaflets warning, ‘More people are prepared to set fire to themselves.’”On Thursday, Chinese security forces from the province and prefecture surrounded Be

Tibetans in the eastern Tibetan region of Serthar, Kardze carried out fresh protests calling for Tibet’s independence on Monday.Hundreds of monks from Kardze protested with Tibetan flags and portraits of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.The protests by over 200 Tibetans were sparked when two monks from a nearby monastery started a demonstration raising slogans for Tibet’s independence and throwing leaflets in the air.Chinese security personnel are reportedly on the look out for the two monks who were rescued from the clutches of the police by the Tibetan crowd.In Darlag County, Golok, on Monday, ti

Now many people have realized that reformism is not feasible.However, there are still many people who think that there is still hope for reform, and accuse the people who advocate revolution.Some of these people are secret agents propagandizing for the Communist Party, which is a traditional job for the Chinese secret police.I am going to put these people aside and talk about the other kind, who are bigots that could cause harm despite good intentions, just like the Mr. Dong Guo in the Chinese fable who saved the wolf and ended up being eaten by the wolf.

Chinese authorities have sentenced a Tibetan protester to prison after holding him for nine months during which he was beaten and tortured.Kalsang, a member of the Thangwa Mai Tragyal family, was handed a three-year term and placed in Miyang prison, near the provincial capital of Chengdu, a source in Tibet said, speaking on condition of anonymity.“He was 42 when he was taken away by Chinese police,” the source said.“He was detained at the Ngaba county detention center and was severely beaten and tortured,” the man said. “Then he disappeared for nine months.”

Chinese police have shot and killed a Tibetan man accused of stealing tents from a controversial construction site, triggering clashes between villagers and security forces.The clashes took place on Monday, a day after the shooting in Labrang county resulted in Tibetan protesters overrunning a police station.Additional security forces were called in and used tear gas to contain the protests, with many Tibetans injured and detained.The situation added to growing tensions in Tibet, including three self-immolations by Tibetans in the past week protesting rule by Beijing.

Defying a security clampdown, thousands of Tibetans gathered on Monday to honor a respected religious leader who died in a self-immolation protest against rule by Beijing.The high-ranking lama, called Sopa and aged 42, set himself ablaze and died on Sunday in front of the police station of Darlag county in the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture after shouting slogans calling for freedom for Tibet.The Chinese authorities at first refused to hand over Sopa’s body to his relatives but relented after hundreds of angry Tibetans smashed windows and doors of the local police station.

Two Tibetans set themselves on fire Friday in restive Ngaba prefecture , protesting against Chinese rule and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet.One of them is believed to have died.A man, thought to be a lay person, set himself on fire near Kirti Monastery in Ngaba town at around 2:50 p.m.local time.His well-being and whereabouts are unknown.A second person also self-immolated nearby at the same time and is reported to have died at the scene.The flames were huge and the layman might have probably died and there is less of a chance for the monk to survive.The Chinese police and a