Argentina Before the International Claim for Tibet
March 14, 2024No Latin American country made a recommendation to China on Tibet in its recent human rights review in Geneva, which reflects how far the Latin American region is from inserting itself internationally in the claim for noble causes, including countries such as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay that lived through terrible read more →
China Cracks Down on Tibetan Protest Against a Hydropower Project in Dege
March 14, 2024China’s cascade dam project on the Drichu, the upper Yangtze River, sparked discontent among the local population. -By Dechen Palmo and Tsering Samdup for The Diplomat On February 14, hundreds of Tibetans in Derge County (Dege in Mandarin), part of the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, protested in front of the county read more →
UN Rights Chief Says China Committing Violations in Xinjiang, Tibet
March 6, 2024-by Reuters GENEVA, March 4 (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday called on China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, including in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that read more →
Underrepresented: Tibetans Kept Out of Most Leadership Positions
March 6, 2024-by International Campaign for Tibet Analysis of Tibetan representation in PRC leadership in 2024 It is the season of China’s annual meetings in Beijing of its National People’s Congress (parliament) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (political advisory body). Popularly called the “Two Sessions,” China has also been using these read more →
Freedom House Gives Tibet Global Freedom Score of Zero
March 2, 2024After 65 years of Chinese occupation, Tibet’s global freedom score has now dropped all the way to zero, watchdog group Freedom House says in its new Freedom in the World report. “This score leaves no doubt that China’s occupation of Tibet has been a global catastrophe,” International Campaign for Tibet President read more →
China Arrests More than 1,000 Tibetans Protesting Chinese Dam Project
February 25, 2024Detainees are told to bring bedding and food, suggesting they will not be released soon, sources say. -by Radio Free Asia Police on Friday arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks from at least two local monasteries, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province after they protested the construction of a dam read more →
Tibetan Monk Arrested for Publishing Books on Tibet from Exiles
February 7, 2024By Pelbar for RFA Tibetan. A Tibetan Buddhist monk was arrested by Chinese police in June 2023 on charges of republishing books from the exiled Tibetan community and for contacting people outside the region, Radio Free Asia has learned. The whereabouts of Lobsang Thabkhey, 54, who served as librarian of read more →
Ahead of Tibetan New Year, China Urges Monks to “Expose, Denounce” Dalai Lama
February 2, 2024-by Radio Free Asia Bearing gifts ahead of the Tibetan New Year, Chinese authorities in Tibetan-populated parts of Sichuan province visited at least 35 Buddhist monasteries, and urged eminent monks to “deeply expose and denounce” the Dalai Lama and to safeguard the “unity of the motherland.” The officials, led by read more →
Tibetan Government-in-Exile Works to Preserve Tibetan Identity
February 1, 2024Last week, during his visit to Estonia, Penpa Tsering, the leader of the exiled Tibetan leadership, met with members of the Tibet Support Group of the Riigikogu. Astrid Kannel, an ERR correspondent, met with a Tibetan political leader to discuss the future and ambitions of his fellow Tibetans. Kannel was read more →
Atheist China Should Have No Say in Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation
January 30, 2024-By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya for The Japan Times Since the occupation of Tibet in 1950, the Chinese Communist Party has persistently distorted historical facts to interfere in Tibetan religious matters. This includes the process to select the reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who is now 88 years read more →