Tibet

DHARAMSALA, Mar 11: A Tibetan youth has been shot and wounded by Chinese authorities on Mar 10 after he refused to stop his motor bike when police tried to pull him over in Drango County in the traditional Kham Province in eastern Tibet.

DHARAMSALA, Feb 10: A young Tibetan Buddhist monk was brutally beaten and detained for staging a peaceful protest against the Chinese government in eastern Tibet.

DHARAMSALA, Dec 29: A Tibetan monk was taken in detention by Chinese paramilitary police following his solitary protest challenging Chinese rule in Tibet and another monk was also detained for unknown reasons in restive Ngaba County in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo.

DHARAMSALA, Dec 29: At least three Tibetans sustained gunshot injuries after Chinese forces fired live ammunition into a group of Tibetans trying to stop the body of a Tibetan self-immolator from being taken away.

DHARAMSALA, Dec 24: A 37-yr-old Tibetan monk of Nyatso monastery in eastern Tibet has died shortly after setting himself on fire in protest against the Chinese government’s repressive rule in Tibet.

DHARAMSALA, Dec 22: A young Tibetan woman has set herself on fire today in restive Ngaba County in Eastern Tibet’s Amdo Province, according to an exiled Tibetan living in Dharamsala with contacts in the region.

DHARAMSALA, Dec 18: More than 40 monks of Pekar monastery and about 100 nuns of Jhada nunnery in restive Driru County in Nagchu Prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region have been expelled from their respective institutions, indicating escalation in crackdowns on religious institutions in Tibet.