Tibetan flag raised in cities across Czechia to commemorate 1959 uprising

Cities and towns across Czechia joined many of their European neighbours on Sunday in hoisting the Tibetan National Flag to observe the 65th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on 10 March. The flag is raised not only to express solidarity with Tibet, but also as a reminder that freedom cannot be taken for granted and that human rights are still being violated today in many places around the world.

This gesture of solidarity takes place in several countries every year on March 10 to commemorate the over 80,000 Tibetans who died in the 1959 uprising and the hundreds of thousands more who died in the following years in prisons, labour camps or from famine. The Czech Republic has regularly taken part since 1996.