A young Tibetan woman died after setting herself afire in western China in the latest incident of pro-democracy protesters self-immolating, a rights group has said. The latest incident coincided with reports claiming that many Tibetans were detained in Lhasa following the case where two Tibetans self-immolated in front of a famous temple in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) earlier this week.
More than 30 monks and civilians have self-immolated in the last one year.
London-based Free Tibet identified the latest protester as 30-year-old Rechok, mother of three children. The incident took place front of the