China should open Tibet to independent monitors and journalists in an effort to defuse tensions before the 50th anniversary of an anti-Chinese uprising in Lhasa next month, Human Rights Watch said.

• 据人权观察组织称，中国政府应该在下个月拉萨举行的“纪念反华运动50周年活动”前，对独立观察员及媒体记者开放西藏地区，以缓解当地的紧张态势。