Worldwide Solidarity Prayer Service on 20 February
DHARMSHALA: The Kashag and Tibetans-in-exile will hold a worldwide prayer service on Wednesday, 20 February from 03:00 pm – 05:00 pm to express solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated and those suffering torture and imprisonment. Despite the Kashag’s’s…
New Secretary of DIIR Takes Charge
DHARAMSHALA: Mr Tashi Phuntsok has taken over from Mr Tashi, the charge of secretary for information of the Department of Information & International Relations on 8 February 2013. An official ceremony of taking over the charge was held today at…
The 100th Self-Immolation in Tibet- A case for the world to answer
PRESS RELEASE 14 February 2013 “Dignity is the spirit of a nationality…,” wrote the 42-year-old monk Sopa Rinpoche before his self-immolation on January 8, 2012. Since the first such action by Tapey on February 8, 2009, 100 Tibetans have burnt…
Human Rights Watch: China enforces highly repressive policies in Tibet
DHARAMSHALA: A prominent human rights organisation has criticised the Chinese government for carrying out widespread secret arrests and torture of Tibetans in custody and authoritarian control over all judicial institutions. The Human Rights Watch (HRW), in its World Report 2013…