Chinese Authorities Release Tibetan Writer Following Four-year Prison Sentence
August 9, 2023-by Radio Free Asia, 7 August 2023 Lobsang Lhundup published books about the 2008 region-wide protests against Beijing’s rule in Tibetan areas. A Tibetan writer who wrote a book that criticized Chinese rule in Tibet has been released from prison after serving a four-year sentence for “creating disorder among the read more →
China Steps Up Political Control Over Religious Venues, Sermons and Activities
August 6, 2023By Gao Feng for RFA Mandarin The ruling Chinese Communist Party is stepping up control over religious venues that will ban ties with overseas organizations while forcing them to deliver ‘patriotic’ education to believers. According to new rules taking effect from Sept. 1, monasteries, temples, mosques, churches and other religious read more →
Sinicization, Patriotism to be China’s New Mantra of Religious Control, Come Sep 1
August 6, 2023(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’23) – New guidelines on religious activities coming into effect on Sep 1 requires all places of worship in the People’s Republic of China to give top importance to the leadership and policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the rubric of “Sinicization”. They ban religious venues read more →
A Night-time Lighting Analysis of Tibet’s Prisons and Detention Centres
July 29, 2023-by RAND, 27 July 2023 Authorities in Tibet are engaging in preventive repression towards their population. As part of their nationwide ‘stability maintenance’ strategy, they are detaining, persecuting, and convicting Tibetans for non-violent forms of protest and other expressions of dissent such as assisting or supporting self-immolations and carrying pictures read more →
Important Tibet Religious Event Prohibited, Organizers Detained
July 28, 2023-by International Campaign for Tibet Chinese police in northeastern Tibet have interfered in an important several days-long Buddhist ritual, the Kalachakra initiation ceremony, by stopping it and detaining the organizers. A sand mandala, part of the ritual, has been destroyed, and devotees who protested against the police action were reportedly read more →
China Protests Dalai Lama Meeting with Visiting U.S. Officials
July 12, 2023Beijing terms meeting ‘interference’; Dalai Lama says China has sent him feelers for talks -by The Hindu China on Monday protested the meeting between the Dalai Lama and officials of the “Central Tibetan Administration” (CTA) with visiting U.S. official Uzra Zeya in Delhi, calling it an attempt to “interfere” in China’s “internal affairs”. read more →
Chinese Authorities Monitor Tibetans to Prevent Communication with Outside World
July 2, 2023Sangyal Kunchok for RFA Tibetan Chinese authorities in Tibet have intensified monitoring of Tibetans, and continue to interrogate them in the regional capital Lhasa to prevent communication with people outside of Tibet, RFA has learned. The Chinese government has been intensifying its monitoring of Tibetans and maintained their interrogations of read more →
China Denies Compensation for Tibetans Displaced by World’s Largest Hydro-Solar Plant
June 29, 2023Nomads had filed complaints with the Chinese government to no avail. By Sangyal Kunchok for RFA Tibetan 2023.06.27 The Chinese government has denied compensation for residents, including Tibetan nomads, affected by the construction of the world’s largest hydro-solar plant, residents living near the plant told Radio Free Asia. Chinese state read more →
Searching Tibetan Monasteries, China Requires Monks to Renounce Ties to Dalai Lama
June 28, 2023The move lines up with an edict requiring public workers to cut ties with the exiled spiritual leader. By Sangyal Kunchok for RFA Tibetan 2023.06.26 Chinese authorities in Tibet are randomly searching monasteries and forcing monks to sign documents renouncing all ties to the “separatist” Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s foremost read more →
Canadian Parliamentarians Urge Sanctions Over Tibet Residential Schools
June 24, 2023-By International Campaign for Tibet Canadian parliamentarians in an international human rights subcommittee are calling for sanctions against Chinese government officials responsible for a coercive boarding school system that has separated the vast majority of Tibetan schoolchildren from their families, language and culture. The Canadian government should “utilize the Special read more →