Woman Burns in Protest Against Chinese Repression (Total Self-Immolation Reaches 140)

 Showing no respite in the spate of self-immolation protests against the Chinese government, a 36-year-old Tibetan woman died after setting herself on fire on Wednesday, 27 May.

CTA organises prayer service for Tibetan self-immolators

DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration today organised a prayer service for the Tibetan self-immolators including Tsephe Kyi and Ven. Kelsang Yeshi, who died after setting themselves on fire on 22 and 23 December respectively.

Girl dies after self-immolation protest at Ngaba. (At least 134 Tibetans have set themselves on fire inside Tibet since 2009)

The charred remains of Tsephel’s body after her self-immolation at Meuruma, Ngaba on 22 December 2014.

DHARAMSHALA: A twenty-year-old Tibetan girl burned herself to death in an apparent protest against the Chinese government at Meuruma township in Ngaba county, Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province), media reports say.

ICT Urges China to release all self-immolation related Tibetan Prisoners

DHARAMSHALA: International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Tibet advocacy group based in the US, has released a special report titled “Acts of significant evil: The criminalisation of Tibetan self-immolations ” documenting the wave of self-immolations in Tibet and the intensified response of the Chinese government. It urged the Chinese government to “release all Tibetans who have been detained and sentenced on grounds “incitement to” or “aiding” self-immolations, and whose actions themselves do not represent punishable behavior according to Chinese Criminal Law and international law.”

Tibetan Monk self-immolates in protest against China. -The total number of Tibetans who set themselves on fire to protest against the Chinese repressive rule has now risen to 124.

A monk set himself on fire on Thursday and died in Gannan-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu province in China, "Xinhua" news reported, citing local authorities.
According to preliminary reports, the 43 -year-old monk set himself on fire in front of the police in the Amchok village of Syahe county.