Tibetans in Kardze County staged anti-China protest while boycotting the celebration of the Tibetan New Year last week.Tibetans in Nyikhog area in Kardze County carried out protest demanding freedom for Tibet from China’s rule and distributed leaflets.The protest is timed during the Tibetan New Year last Friday and reportedly lasted until about the fifth day of the New Year, known as Losar in Tibetan.Chinese officials burned fire-crackers on the first day of the Losar in a bid to downplay the prevailing tense situation in Tibet and to paint a festive mood but was reportedly opposed by Tibetans

On the fifth day of the Tibetan new year, February 26, a young Tibetan reportedly torched himself to death.
According to a report published by Tibet Times, this latest self-immolation protest occurred in the town of Ling Tsang Rinchenling in the Derge region of eastern Tibet.Citing an exile source, the newspaper reported on its website that the Tibetan set himself on fire in front of a newly built Chinese office in the town.The youngster passed away immediately according to the source.

Chinese authorities have detained a popular Tibetan comedian ahead of his plan to release a video criticizing Chinese rule in Tibet.Athar, 33, who runs a general store aside from giving satirical performances in Lithang , was taken into custody at night in early February by a special Chinese police team.Two weeks ago, many Chinese police wearing black head gear came to his shop in the evening.They searched his shop and took him away with them in the night.Athar’s relatives who went to the county police to enquire about his situation were told that the performer had been taken by police belongi

We watch in grief as the selfless and courageous actions of Tibetans inside Tibet continue.Twenty three Tibetans have self-immolated since February 27, 2009.Fifteen of them have died; the whereabouts and the conditions of others remain unknown.Thousands of Tibetans peacefully rallying on the streets of Tibet were mercilessly shot with automatic weapons, ruthlessly beaten with spiked batons or were later arbitrarily sent to prison to be tortured.These ultimate sacrifices by Tibetans inside Tibet are conscious decisions made with unwavering determinations solely dedicated towards a nation’s inde

Chinese authorities in East Turkestan have closed down at least 200 places of worship and detained 129 Muslim Uyghurs in a security crackdown ahead of national parliamentary meetings in March.The regional government recently launched a campaign against "illegal" religious activities, a campaign which overseas Uyghurs say targets their ethnic group."The Chinese authorities have launched an unprecedented clampdown on religious affairs in the region," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress."China has closed more than 200 places of worship in Hotan and detained 129

Nya Drul (18 year old) from Zamthang in Amdo Ngaba self immolated near Jonang Monastery this noon in protest against Chinese Government.Despite Chinese security forces attempt to forcibly confiscate his dead body, the monks of Jonang Monastery successfully retrieve the body in the Monastery and the ritual prayers are being conducted.Nya Drul set himself on fire and died on the spot.Nya Drul has also left his testament.Tibetans in exile fear that there will be more loss of Tibetan lives and bloodshed in the coming days coinciding with the Tibetan New Year which falls on 22nd February and on the

Chinese authorities have evicted Buddhist retreatants from two hermitages and ramped up security around a restive county in Tibet where monks and nuns are protesting Chinese state intrusion into monastery affairs, according to Tibetan sources.More than 20 retreatants were expelled from two traditional hermitage sites outside the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Feb.

Dhamchoe Sangpo, a monk from Bongthak Ewam Tare Shedrup Dhargey Ling monastery in the Tsongon region of Amdo, eastern Tibet set his body on fire at around 6 am local time in protest against the Chinese government.Dhamchoe Sangpo, 38,the youngest of ten siblings, passed away soon after his self-immolation protest.Following earlier protest by a monk identified as Kalsang from the Bongthak monastery against a planned silver mining project in the region, the monastery had been facing severe repression from local Chinese government authorities.Off late, Chinese had surrounded the monastery with mil

A Tibetan traffic policeman from Machu county,in Kanlho, was handed a four-and-a-half-year jail term for “rebelling” against the Chinese government during regionwide protests in 2008.His name is Sherab, and he is from the district of Dzoge.He had been a monk for a while, but later joined the Chinese police force, where he served for four years.When Tibetans in Machu rose against Chinese rule in 2008, Sherab went to the Tibetan side and attacked the Chinese police.He was detained sometime in May or June of 2008, and since then nothing was heard about him for a while.Sherab was sentenced by the

A popular advocate of Tibet’s traditional culture and language is believed to have been detained by Chinese authorities, as another Tibetan self-immolated in protest against Chinese rule.One source, calling from inside Tibet, told that Dawa Dorje, who works as a government researcher in Nagchu prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), was detained last week after expressing concern over the closure of Tibetan monasteries.He was picked up at Tibet's capital Lhasa's Gonggar Airport, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity."There is hardly anyone in Nagchu who doesn't know abou

Today around 2:30 pm Tibet time, 19 year old monk Lobsang Gyatso of Kirti Monatery in Ngaba, self immolated to protest the continuing illegal occupation of Tibet by Communist China.He was beaten while in flames by the Chinese police and is currently under police custody. It is not known whether he is alive or not at this time.The 19-year-old is the second teenager to set themselves on fire in Ngaba in the last three days following Tenzin Choeden who died on Saturday.

A Tibetan Buddhist nun set herself on fire on Saturday in the latest self-immolation against Chinese rule.Tenzin Choedron, aged 18 and from the Mamo Nunnery in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, shouted slogans against the Chinese government as she was burning before security forces hauled her away.Choedron was the 23rd Tibetan—and the third nun—to have self-immolated since February 2009 when Beijing stepped up a clampdown on monasteries and rounded up hundreds of protesting monks.She did not die on the spot, but soldiers and police came immediately and took her away, towards Barkham.Aft

Sources said an unidentified monk set himself ablaze at Lab monastery in Tridu county, the scene of protests against Chinese rule by about 1,000 Tibetans on Wednesday.The county is in Yulshul prefecture.The name and other details of the monk protester were not immediately available.After that incident, the Chinese authorities took away the Khenpo and other high lamas of the monastery to the prefecture headquarters in Yushu.The monks of Lab monastery and other Tibetans in the area are waiting for the Khenpo and lamas to return.If they do not return by today, they are determined to start protest

In a protest in Nangchen on Wednesday, as many as 1,000 people, mostly laypersons in traditional dress, flocked to the county stadium under close watch by security forces. They chanted prayers and shouted slogans such as "Freedom for Tibet" and "Long live the Dalai Lama,". When armed soldiers and policemen closed in, the Tibetans shouted "Kyi Hi Hi," a Tibetan battle cry in defiance.The soldiers and policemen then retreated but watched from a distance.