The mysterious case of the missing Tibetan teacher Rinchen Kyi has apparently found a happy ending. The mother of a 13-year-old daughter has been escorted back home by police officers on Sunday evening. Kyi had been taken to a hospital against her will by police on August 1 last year and disappeared for eight months […]
Only a few weeks after Tibet saw an act of self-immolation, another death was reported in Tibet. According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), an 81-year-old man named Taphun set himself on fire in front of a police station in the eastern Tibetan county of Aba in the province of Sichuan on March 27 […]
In Tibet ist es binnen weniger Wochen erneut zu einer Selbstanzündung mit Todesfolge gekommen. Ein 81-Jähriger namens Taphun hatte sich nach Angaben der International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) am 27. März vor einer Polizeistation im osttibetischen Landkreis Aba in der Provinz Sichuan in Brand gesteckt und war später seinen Verletzungen erlegen. Bereits Ende Februar hatte […]