The fourteen hunger strikers are on their thirteenth day of the fast, with only couple of glasses of water to sustain their body. Their health condition is deteriorating day by day, but their determination is never deterred.

Today, a total of 118 memorandums were submitted to different foreign embassies in India asking for support of the demands of the hunger strikers, and requesting them to raise the issue with the Chinese Government through their respective governments.

Former Member of Tibetan-Parliament-in-exile, Ven Gomang Tempa, visited the hunger strikers along with a group from Drepung Gomang Dratsang. Venerable Chisur Tempa la while admiring the courage and the determination of the hunger strikers commented that "I am very happy to learn that Tibetans (from Cholka-Sum) from various places are planning to come in large numbers to participate in the Mass People's Protest on 8 August 2007, and that the preparation here is taking place at full swing. I admire and respect TYC for organizing various campaigns for the cause of Tibet."

Mr. U.K. Maung, a Burmese refugee in India, who is campaigning for democracy in Burma, while paying a visit to the hunger strikers, pointed out that, "According to the great founders of world communism, such as Lenin, Marx and Stalin, every nation should be provided with full independence. The highest gathering of the world, the Soviet Union, was able to exist and organize many member states because of voluntary union with full rights of secession. The original soviet constitution fully recognized this provision. Top leadership of Communist China should always remember this very point. Tibet should be freed by China themselves."

Mary Ann Thomas, an American citizen, who visited the hunger strikers to express her solidarity and appreciation, said that "the people of the United States have not forgotten Tibet - keep fighting and we will do the same."

Among individual Tibetans who visited the Indefinite Hunger Strike, Mr. Ratuk Ngawang, former Dapon of Special Frontier Force (SFF) 22 Establishment, came to express his empathy. And Tibetans from Ravangla, Bylakuppe, Mainpat, Mundgod, Dehradun, Bandara, Gangtok, Salugara, RTYC Baroda, and Japan came to the hunger strikers to express their solidarity and support. Executives of the regional chapter of Tibetan Women's Association, the Delhi Pitampura Tibetan Shopping Complex Association, and the Delhi Ex-Servicemen Association visited the hunger strikers in their official capacities to express admiration and solidarity.

The Indefinite Hunger Strike at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, is part of the Tibetan Youth Congress-led People's Movement, pressing demands for accountability from China regarding the Tibet situation. Current updates, photos, and messages to the hunger strikers can be viewed at http://www.tibetanyouthcongress.org .