DHARAMSALA, Aug 28: Chinese authorities have arrested a young Tibetan woman writer in eastern Tibet for publishing articles on various websites that are critical of the Chinese government.
Read moreDHARAMSHALA, Aug 28: The pregnant wife of a Tibetan teenager, who died from untreated gunshot wounds sustained at the hands of Chinese police, has killed herself.
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DHARAMSALA, AUG 26: The elected head of the Tibetan people, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay is on a three-day visit to Germany, where among others, he will attend a Sino-Tibetan conference with Chinese intellectuals, activists, writers, Sinologists from Europe, US, Asia and Australia.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Aug 25: A senior Chinese official in Tibet has claimed that the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in talks with Beijing, however, he stressed that the talks are only about the possibility of the Tibetan leaders return to Tibet.
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[dalailama.com] Hamburg, Germany, 24 August 2014 – Emerging from his hotel into the sunlight falling through the trees, His Holiness the Dalai Lama took time to greet Tibetans and other well-wishers who had gathered to express their respect and support.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 22: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s scheduled visit to Mongolia this month has been cancelled as Chinese president Xi Jinping visits the country from Aug 21-22, reported Kyodo News International citing multiple sources.
Read more[The New Indian Express] NEW DELHI, Aug 19: A nurse, 25, who hails from Tibet, was gangraped on Independence Day night, inside a top hotel here by two members of the hotel director’s personal staff, police said. The rape survivor was tending to the ailing wife of one of the directors of The Oberoi Hotel.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 19: Three Tibetans who were injured on Aug 12 as Chinese police opened fire on unarmed Tibetan protesters in Denma Township in Kardze Prefecture’s Sershul County have been killed in detention, latest reports coming out of eastern Tibet say.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Aug 18: Emerging reports from Tibet say two Tibetans have died and scores of have been detained following the latest shooting incident in eastern Tibet where, according to earlier reports, at least ten Tibetan protesters were believed to have sustained gunshots.
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By William Wan and Xu Yangjingjing, The Washington Post|August 16, 2014
During their controversial six-decade-rule of Tibet, China’s Communist Party leaders have been accused by human rights groups of trying to tame the restive region by imprisoning Tibetan political prisoners, keeping in exile their leader the Dalai Lama and repressing Tibetan religion and culture.
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