Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Around 300 people gathered at Liberty Square in Taipei on Wednesday evening to commemorate Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen, who died after self-immolating outside the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York earlier this month.

The gathering also protested China's Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, which took effect on July 1 and has been criticized by rights groups as threatening the languages, cultures and identities of ethnic minority groups in China.

The organizers, including the Tibet Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, said around 300 people had attended the gathering by about 7:30 p.m. The crowd included Tibetans living in Taiwan, human rights advocates and Taiwanese supporters.

One Taiwanese participant, Tess Cheng, said Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang had long faced threats from "a very powerful and evil regime," referring to China.

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