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Who Is China To Appoint The Next Dalai Lama – OpEd
By N. S. Venkataraman, Eurasia Review, 16 July 2019 Read article here Taking the world view for granted and with least regard for the views of the Buddhists across the world and with characteristic audacious and arrogant approach, Government of China … Continued The post Who Is China To Appoint The read more →
Google’s Project Dragonfly ‘terminated’ in China
Google’s controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China has been “terminated”, a company executive has said. The project was reported to have ceased late last year but rumours that it remained active persisted. “We have terminated Project Dragonfly,” Google … Continued The post Google’s Project Dragonfly ‘terminated’ in China read more →
Dalai Lama Representative Dismisses Chinese Pressure on India Over Reincarnation
The Dalai Lama’s representative in North America has dismissed recent remarks by Chinese officials demanding that India support Beijing’s selection of the 84-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader’s successor. Recent remarks to Indian reporters in Lhasa by two Chinese officials responsible for … Continued The post Dalai Lama Representative Dismisses Chinese Pressure read more →
Dalai Lama says China will never have power to pick his successor
By Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Read article here TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The 14th and current Dalai Lama, who celebrated his 84th birthday on July 6, announced on Monday (July 15) that he would decide whether or not to reincarnate once … Continued The post Dalai Lama says China will never read more →
India, its people done a lot: Tibetans
Vishal Gulati, The Quint. Read the article here. Dharamsala, July 16 (IANS) For Tibetans in exile, the Indian government and people of India have done a lot for Tibet. Even Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama calls himself a “son … Continued The post India, its people done a lot: read more →
North Korea, Syria and Myanmar among countries defending China’s actions in Xinjiang
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 15 July 2019 Read article here (CNN)Ambassadors representing 37 countries praised China for its “remarkable achievements in the field of human rights,” just a day after a group of 22 other countries formally condemned Beijing for the mass detention … Continued The post North Korea, Syria and Myanmar among read more →
Sinicization poses new threats to the survival of Tibetan Buddhist culture and values in Tibet
By International Campaign for Tibet|July 12, 2019 The second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, being hosted by the State Department in Washington, DC from July 16 to 18, 2019, comes at a time when the International Campaign for Tibet has obtained … Continued The post Sinicization poses new threats to the read more →
Hong Kong Protesters’ New Target: A News Station Seen as China’s Friend
By Mike Ives and Katherine Li, The New York Times. Read the article here. HONG KONG — As a television journalist was trying to record video of a protest in Hong Kong last week, the protest suddenly became about him … Continued The post Hong Kong Protesters’ New Target: A read more →
‘Dalai Lama’s successor to be chosen within China, India should not interfere’, say Chinese authorities
Times Now. Read the article here Beijing/Lhasa: Chinese authorities on Sunday asserted that the successor of spiritual leader Dalai Lama will be chosen within China and warned India that any interference from its side could hamper bilateral ties. Commenting on the sensitive … Continued The post ‘Dalai Lama’s successor to be chosen read more →
China slams UN letter on Xinjiang human rights as ‘slander’
Hong Kong Fress Press, Link to the article here. China on Thursday labeled as “slander” a letter sent to top United Nations officials by more than 20 countries condemning Beijing’s treatment of ethnic minorities. An estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic … Continued The post China slams UN letter on Xinjiang read more →
Tibetan Nuns Beaten by Chinese Guards For ‘Weeping’ in Detention
Reported by Sonam Lhamo for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Link to the article here. Tibetan nuns evicted by Chinese authorities from a Tibetan Buddhist study center in Sichuan have been singled … Continued The post Tibetan Nuns Beaten by Chinese Guards read more →
China Rebuked by 22 Nations Over Xinjiang Repression
GENEVA — A group of 22 countries has issued a statement urging China to stop the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in its western Xinjiang region, the first concerted international challenge to a policy China has vigorously … Continued The post China Rebuked by 22 Nations Over read more →
UN: Unprecedented Joint Call for China to End Xinjiang Abuses
Human Rights Watch, 10 July 2019 Read the report here. 22 Countries Decry Mass Detention, Seek Monitoring China’s Xinjiang region’s Vice-Governor Erkin Tuniyaz attends the Human Rights Council meeting at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 25, 2019. © … Continued The post UN: Unprecedented Joint Call for China read more →
The Extraordinary Power of Hong Kongers’ Solidarity
By Stéphanie Giry, Ms. Giry is an editor in the Opinion section, based in Hong Kong. Read the article here. HONG KONG — The battle between the government and this city’s protest movement couldn’t have been on starker display last Monday, July 1 — a … Continued The post The Extraordinary Power of Hong Kongers’ read more →
Four Years on, China’s Crackdown Still Suppressing Human Rights Lawyers, Clients
Four years after the ruling Chinese Communist Party launched anationwide crackdown on the country’s human rights lawyers, the country’s rights attorneys say they are now being prevented from practicing law at all. Hunan lawyer Xie Yang, who was initially detained on July 11, … Continued The post Four Years on, China’s Crackdown Still read more →