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WASHINGTON, DC, July 3, 2026 — Tibetan activist Lobsang Palden, widely known as Lobga Rangzen, died after self-immolating outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Thursday, July 2 evening, a day after China’s new so-called Ethnic Unity and Progress Law entered into force. This is the first self-immolation by a Tibetan on US soil and marks over 170 known self-immolations by Tibetans, both inside Tibet and China, and in exile.
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) mour...
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