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Tibetan monk self-immolates inside China temple

Radio Free Asia said 28-year-old Lobsang Thokmey was the 108th Tibetan to have self-immolated in a string of protests against Chinese rule and religious restrictions starting in February 2009.

India police stop immolation bid by Tibetan exile

The Dalai Lama also denies China's charge that he is pushing for Tibet's independence, saying that he only wants China to grant Tibetans cultural and religious freedoms.

Tibetans want release of protester's body in Nepal

Nepalese officials say the body of a Tibetan man who set himself on fire to protest China's rule over Tibet can only be released to the man's family.

China arrests 5 Tibetans for 'inciting' immolation

Xinhua says the five are accused of recruiting three people and encouraging them to self-immolate in late October and November last year, saying their sacrifice would contribute to the Tibetan cause.

Tibetan monks self-immolate in anti-China protest

Authorities have detained and jailed Tibetans they accuse of helping others self-immolate, an act that Beijing now considers a crime.

Group: The 100th Tibetan self-immolates in China

An overseas Tibetan rights group says an ex-monk has set himself on fire, becoming the 100th Tibetan to self-immolate in China since 2009 in protest of the Chinese rule.

Tibetan protester who self-immolated in Nepal dies

Police in Nepal say a Tibetan protester who set himself on fire in Nepal's capital to protest against China has died at a hospital.

100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a protest China can't stop

A second prominent Tibetan rights group, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet, attributed the news of Lobsang Namgyal's self-immolation to reports from Tibetan monks living in exile.

Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Nepal

A police official says a Tibetan man has set himself on fire in Nepal's capital in what is believed to be the latest self-immolation to protest Chinese rule in Tibet.

Tibetan man sentenced for inciting self-immolation of monk

Xinhua said that Phagpa in 2005 travelled from China to India illegally and received training at "an institute specially created for the 'Tibetan independence' forces of the Dalai Lama clique.

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