No Progress With A-Nya Sengdra’s Appeal
January 19, 2024Tibetan community leader and anti-corruption activist remains in prison, despite his lawyer’s efforts. -By Tibet Watch The anti-corruption activist and community leader A-Nya Sengdra remains in prison with little progress with his appeal, his lawyer has revealed. Lin Qilei stated that on 8 January 2024, he visited the Sixth Circuit read more →
Official Who Oversaw Destruction of Tibetan Buddhist Sites Reported Dead
January 19, 2024By Pelbar for RFA Tibetan. A Chinese government official of Tibetan ethnicity who approved the destruction of a huge Buddha statue died after falling from the fifth floor of a mall in Chengdu, according to a statement issued by local Chinese authorities and two sources inside Tibet. Wang Dongsheng, 53, read more →
Tibet Not in Focus, Repression Persists: Exiled Former Leader
January 16, 2024-By Reuters TAIPEI, (Reuters) – The plight of Tibet has become less discussed internationally but repression continues and China is applying what it did there to other regions, a former head of the Tibetan government-in-exile said on Saturday. China seized control of Tibet in 1950 in what it describes as read more →
UN Must Include Strong Language on Tibet in China Review
January 13, 2024-By International Campaign for Tibet As the United Nations prepares to take up China’s report at the upcoming Universal Periodic Review at the end of January, the accelerating deterioration in Tibet demands that UN member states scrutinize China and that the UN adopts strong language on Tibet in its concluding read more →
Authorities Enforce Ban on Tibetan Students Taking Outside Classes
January 11, 2024Investigations night and day to find offenders -by Radio Free Asia Going door-to-door, Chinese authorities are stepping up efforts to enforce a ban on Tibetan children from taking private classes and participating in religious activities during the winter break from school, three sources from inside Tibet told Radio Free Asia. read more →
US Company Halts DNA Collection Kit Sales in Tibetan Region
January 5, 2024-By International Campaign for Tibet In a victory for Tibet activists, biotechnology firm Thermo Fisher Scientific says it has stopped selling kits reportedly used for mass DNA collection in a region of Chinese-occupied Tibet. “Based on a number of factors we made the decision in mid-2023 to cease sales of read more →
No New Monks Allowed at Buddhist Monastery in Tibet
January 5, 2024The move reflects China’s tightening grip on religious activities, sources say. -By Pelbar and Tenzin Pema for RFA Tibetan Chinese authorities have forbidden the admission of new monks of all ages into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Chamdo prefecture in eastern Tibet amid growing restrictions on religious activities in the read more →
Human Rights Defender Detained for Exposing Online Official Practice of Racial Discrimination Against Tibetans
January 4, 2024-By TCHRD Tibetan human rights defender Tsering Tso had been subjected to arbitrary detention for the second time in three years for her social media posts calling out Chinese authorities for engaging in human rights abuses against Tibetans in Kyegudo (Ch: Yushu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan read more →
Tibetans Forced to Celebrate Mao’s 130th Birthday
December 30, 2023Chinese officials have spread propaganda showing ‘poor, underprivileged’ Tibetans before Mao’s 1950 invasion. -By Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities in Tibet forced locals to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth on Tuesday, crediting the late leader with “the peaceful liberation of Tibet” in 1950, which Tibetan authorities in exile consider read more →
2023 in Review: Resisting Efforts to Erase Tibet
December 29, 2023-By International Campaign for Tibet As China tried to wipe the name Tibet off the map in 2023, Tibetans and their allies kept up relentless efforts to protect Tibetan culture while advancing new ways to bring the Tibet-China conflict to a resolution. More than six decades since its occupation of read more →