Tibetan activists chain themselves to UN gates after fatal self-immolation

3 taken into custody for demonstration over death of Tibet-born New York resident last week Protesters hold a banner reading "[UN High Commissioner for Human Rights] Volker Turk end your silence on Tibet" in front of the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 9. (Students for a Free Tibet) NEW YORK — Hundreds demonstrated outside the U.N. headquarters on Thursday, a week after Tibetan activist Lobsang Palden lit himself on fire and died from severe burns.

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