Geneva- The United Nations Council on Human Rights, now in its third week of sessions, heard from the Tibetan delegation yesterday on the issues of torture, religious freedom, disappearances and forced resettlement of nomads in Tibet. Mr. Tenzin Samphel Kayta, on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples, drew the Council's attention to the Chinese government's repeated failure to accurately account for thousands of Tibetans detained since 2008 and to end the practices of routine torture and illegal imprisonment.

Dharamshala: The Swiss-Tibetan Friendship Organization criticized on Tuesday the position of the Swiss Federal Council for refusing a meeting with Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his visit to Switzerland next month said Kuwait News Agency. Under heavy pressures of communist regime of China, the Swiss government has weakend its response to the current strong Human Rights violations and supression in Tibet.

Taipei: Over 1,200 protestors gathered at the Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT station yesterday afternoon to commemorate the 51st Tibetan Uprising Day. The protest also marked the 2nd anniversary of the 2008 protests and subsequent Chinese crackdown, and the fifth anniversary of the widely criticised Anti-Secession Law, implemented by the PRC to assure a "non-peaceful" response to Taiwanese independence.

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