Day: July 13, 2020

Former Tibetan political prisoner dies aged just 50

Samdup who died at the age of just 50 is one of the four former political prisoner to have died in Tibet in the last six months (Photo courtesy CTA)

By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, July 13: A former Tibetan political prisoner who served more than seven years in Chinese prison has reportedly died of diabetes-related complications, aged just 50 in Tibet. Samdup died on February 17, 2020, at 3:15 am after he was admitted at the Lhasa Public Hospital in the beginning of this year, […]

Petition to rename road near Chinese embassy to Dalai Lama Marg

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Reuters)

By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, July 13: The dipping image of China in the Indian public psyche amid the confrontation at the Indo-Tibetan border has manifested into an online petition to rename a road leading to the Chinese embassy to Dalai Lama marg. An online petition addressed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for renaming […]

Tibetan activist groups protest at Chinese embassy in London

Messages projected on the walls of the Chinese embassy in London on July 10 (Photo- Free Tibet)

By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, July 13: Tibetan activist groups Free Tibet, International Tibet Network (ITN), Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) and the global ethical consumer group SumOfUs projected messages of protest onto the walls of Chinese embassy and other sites across London. Activists carried out a series of projections on Friday highlighting China’s atrocities […]