Signatures are being collected in front of Warsaw University petitioning Chinese authorities to release all political prisoners in Tibet. Another demonstration is to be staged outside the embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the evening.

In other initiatives, exhibitions raising awarenessof  Tibetan political prisoners have been set up in 70 cities across Poland, such as Tenzin Delek Riponche, a monk, whose death sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment.

The Day of Solidarity commemorates the anniversary of the national uprising against Chinese occupation which erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on 10th March 1959. The revolt was suppressed and ended in bloodshed claiming 67 thousand lives. The 14^th Dalai Lama was forced to seek shelter in India.

Presently, the list of Tibetan political prisoners held in Chinese prisons is estimated at 7 hundred.