Human rights violations shoot up as China increases mass DNA testing in Tibet: Report
November 19, 2022Lhasa [Tibet], November 17 (ANI): Surveillance has tightened up across China as the authorities have increased the DNA mass tests, including the arbitrary collection of DNA from residents in many towns and villages throughout the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), several media reports said. Citing the survey of a report from read more →
Head of Tibetan exile govt renounces ‘One China Policy’ during visit to city
November 19, 2022The Shillong Times. Nov 14, 2022. Sikyong Penpa Tsering. Alongside is Tsering Dolma, Tibetan Parliamentarian. SHILLONG, Nov 13: The Sikyong (president) of the Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Penpa Tsering, who took over from Lobsang Sangay in May 2021, was on a two-day visit to Meghalaya. read more →
Commission: Congress, Administration Should Promote Tibet-China Conflict Resolution
November 18, 2022-By International Campaign for Tibet The US Congress and the Biden administration should push for a resolution to China’s decades-long conflict against Tibet, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China says in its new annual report. The report, released today, Nov. 16, 2022, says China’s officials “continue to show no interest in read more →
Popular Tibetan Video-sharing App to be Shut Down
November 17, 2022GangYang’s creator cites growing expenses, but a rights group points to a Chinese clampdown. Radio Free Asia – By Sangyal Kunchok The creator of a popular Tibetan language video-sharing app abruptly announced on Thursday he was shutting it down for financial reasons, a source inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region said. read more →
China imprisons 2 Tibetan monks for sending donations to Dalai Lama
November 9, 2022Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Eugene Whong. Chinese authorities in Tibet have sentenced two monks from the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province to prison for sending prayer offerings to the Dalai Lama and the abbot of their monastery, both living in exile in India, Radio Free Asia read more →
Can the US live in Xi Jinping’s world?
November 5, 2022John Sudworth for the BBC Ten days ago Xi Jinping walked out in front of the world’s media – depleted somewhat by his government’s growing intolerance of foreign reporters – as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades. A tradition that limited his recent predecessors to two terms had been read more →
Authorities allow Tibetans in Lhasa to travel in region amid COVID wave
November 2, 2022-By Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities have relaxed severe COVID-19 lockdowns in parts of the far-western Tibet region, allowing Tibetans residing temporarily in the regional capital Lhasa for work or other reasons to return to their hometowns beginning Monday, sources in the region said. A wave of coronavirus infections hit read more →
China Covid: Videos emerge of rare protests in Tibet
October 29, 2022BBC News. October 28, 2022. Footage has emerged showing what appear to be rare large-scale protests against strict Covid-19 measures in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa. Multiple videos on social media show hundreds demonstrating and clashing with police. They are said to be mostly ethnic Han Chinese migrant workers. The read more →
Protests break out in Tibetan capital against China’s strict Covid restrictions
October 28, 2022-By Radio Free Asia Tibetans take to Lhasa streets in first demonstrations since 2008 Tibetan Uprising. Angry residents in the Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the harsh COVID-19 lockdown that Chinese authorities have imposed on them for more than two months, Radio read more →
China accused of illegal police stations in the Netherlands
October 28, 2022By Anna Holligan for BBC News, The Hague. The Chinese government has been accused of establishing at least two undeclared “police stations” in the Netherlands. Dutch media found evidence that the “overseas service stations”, which promise to provide diplomatic services, are being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in read more →