Tag: Self-immolations, Category: Human Rights

20-Year-Old Mother in Sichuan Self-Immolates

A twenty-year-old Tibetan mother, Jugtso (also spelled Chugtso) has killed herself in a self-immolation protest in Sichuan today. Free Tibet reports: Jugtso set herself alight outside a monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet (1) around 3pm local time today, 16 April. Local witnesses confirmed that she died at the scene. Her body was taken into the monastery where religious ceremonies were conducted. Loc

April 16, 2013 1:34 PM

CCTV Blames ‘Dalai Clique’ for Self-Immolations

As the exiled prime minister of Tibet has been engaging in a series of interviews with world media outlets and as Li Keqi

May 17, 2013 12:43 PM

Conversations with Tibet’s Exiled Prime Minister

Harvard educated Dr. Lobsang Sangay was elected as the Tibetan government-in-exile’s equivalent of prime minister i

May 16, 2013 2:25 PM

Ai Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility

In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply dif

May 10, 2013 1:35 PM

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