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Tibetan Protester Self-Immolates Outside UN, Flags China

7/3/2026

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Lobga Rangzen, 42, self-immolated outside UN headquarters in Manhattan and died at Bellevue Hospital.
The livestream showed him in robes planting a Tibetan flag before flames.
Police recovered a “China out of Tibet” sign and left the flag on the sidewalk for an hour.
Free Tibet reports 150 self-immolations in Tibet since March 2009 and notes the 2024 self-immolation of service member Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

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Lobga Rangzen, 42, self-immolated outside UN headquarters in Manhattan and died at Bellevue Hospital.
The livestream showed him in robes planting a Tibetan flag before flames.
Police recovered a “China out of Tibet” sign and left the flag on the sidewalk for an hour.
Free Tibet reports 150 self-immolations in Tibet since March 2009 and notes the 2024 self-immolation of service member Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington.