China blocks use of Tibetan language on learning apps, streaming services
March 25, 2022-By Radio Free Asia The move aims at Tibetans’ further assimilation into China’s dominant Han Chinese culture, sources say. Chinese government restrictions on use of the Tibetan language have now spread to video services and other online platforms, as Beijing continues to push the assimilation of China’s ethnic minorities into read more →
Human rights and Beijing Summit: the EU must not remain silent on Chinese crimes
March 24, 2022Asia News – 22 March 2022 Beijing (AsiaNews) – “While we understand that the main topic of discussions will be the Ukraine crisis and the Chinese government’s position on it, we urge you to dedicate adequate time to also discuss those authorities’ assaults on human rights both within and increasingly read more →
Children’s edition of ‘The Book of Joy’ coming this fall
March 24, 202222 March 2022 – AP NEW YORK (AP) — A picture-book edition of a bestseller co-authored by the Nobel Peace Prize winners the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be published this fall. Random House Children’s Books announced Tuesday that “The Little Book of Joy” will come out Sept. read more →
Tibetan writer released from prison in China after serving 13 years
March 24, 2022-By Radio Free Asia Kunchok Tsephel was editor of a website promoting classical and modern Tibetan literature. A Tibetan writer jailed for 15 years for writings deemed separatist by Chinese authorities has been released two years before finishing his sentence, with no word immediately available regarding his present state of read more →
Promoting Accountability for Transnational Repression Committed by People’s Republic of China (PRC) Officials
March 23, 2022U.S. Department of State-21 March The Department of State is taking action against PRC officials for their involvement in repressive acts against members of ethnic and religious minority groups and religious and spiritual practitioners inside and outside of China’s borders, including within the United States. The United States rejects efforts read more →
INTERVIEW | Tibet’s Tsewang Gyalpo Arya: Putin and Xi are Dangers to Humanity
March 22, 2022-Japan Forward The Dalai Lama’s liaison for Japan and East Asia predicts that Russia’s Putin will fail in Ukraine just like China has failed to erase Tibet’s religion, language, and way of life. JAPAN Forward sat down with Dr. Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, the representative of the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai read more →
US government funding bill increases Tibet support
March 18, 2022-By International Campaign for Tibet The bill that President Joe Biden signed into law today to fund the US government also expands US support for the Tibetan people, including by challenging China’s occupation of Tibet and strengthening US calls for dialogue on Tibet’s future. “By passing this bill, the US read more →
Three children arrested in Tibet for language lessons complaint
March 18, 2022-By Free Tibet The secondary school students are believed to have been taken to a so-called “reform through education centre” in Markham county. In October 2021, Chinese authorities in the so-called ‘Tibetan Autonomous Region’ arrested three secondary school students for showing displeasure at the lack of Tibetan language classes. In read more →
Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu confirmed dead due to extreme burn
March 18, 2022-By International Campaign for Tibet Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu died in the People’s Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region (Chinese: Xīzàng zìzhìqū rénmín yīyuàn, 西藏自治区人民医院) in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa in the first weekend of March 2022, reliable sources have informed the International Campaign for Tibet. One source confirmed that read more →
Young Tibetan Entrepreneur beaten and forcibly taken by Gamba County Police
March 18, 2022-By Tibet Watch Pasang Norbu’s bike tour company ordered shutdown and all his bicycles were confiscated. Tibet Watch has learned that on 11 March 2022, the Chinese police authorities of Gamba County arrested Pasang Norbu, a Tibetan entrepreneur of a bike tour company, aged in his 20s, in Gamba County read more →