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In Visit to Gansu, Chinese Security Chief Stresses Stability in and Around Tibet
Tibetans view the comments as part of further clampdown on the ethnic minority. – by Lobe Socktsang for RFA Tibetan China’s security chief emphasized the importance of national security and the need to confront separatist elements during a visit last week to central Gansu province in what some Tibetans see read more →
“Xizang”: China Insists on Depriving Tibet of Its Name
The first act of the new CCP boss in Tibet is to implement plans to refer to the region in English with a different denomination. – by Lobsan Gurung for Bitter Winter On August 22, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the forcible read more →
China wants to erase Tibet. Will Britain stay quiet about this crime?
Simon Tisdall for The Guardian ast week’s US sanctioning of Chinese officials involved in Beijing’s ongoing criminal efforts to erase Tibet as a separate political, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious entity showed America at its best. Few other governments give a hoot. Most cravenly look the other way. Citing a recent UN read more →
China’s Cartographic Manipulation of Tibet is ‘Colonialism of Perception’
Xi Jinping and CCP focused at wiping out Tibet, Xinjiang and Southern Mongolia – by Vijay Kranti for CHASE New Delhi, Paris, New York & Dharamshala – 28 August 2023 Many international experts on China and Tibet are of the opinion that President Xi Jinping’s obsession with security and to read more →
Gonmo Kyi Denied Hospital Treatment After Police Beating
Sister of imprisoned businessman Dorjee Tashi beaten by police authorities outside Lhasa court whilst asking for a retrial in his case – By Tibet Watch Tibet Watch has received more new videos, in which Gonmo Kyi, sister of imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, is seen lying on the floor of read more →
Tibetan Language Advocate Tashi Wangchuk Attacked
–By Free Tibet The language advocate and former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk was attacked on Saturday 19 August by a group of unidentified, masked men. Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has established that Tashi Wangchuk travelled to Darlak County in eastern Tibet on the evening of 19 August with read more →
China’s Latest Crackdown on VPNs Software in Tibet
–tibetpolicy.net Inside Tibet, people live in a vigorously designed, managed and curated information bubble that the Chinese government made to subjugate Tibet and its people. China’s Internet censorship system, colloquially known as the “Great Firewall,” has suppressed freedom of expression and strictly monitored the information that could be accessed by read more →
China’s claim to Tibet ‘incorrect, bid to rewrite history’: Gen Naravane backs Tibetan freedom struggle
SMRUTI DESHPANDE for The Print New Delhi: Underscoring Tibet’s struggle for independence from China, former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (retd) said Wednesday that Tibetans world over have a legitimate right to return to the land of their forefathers and experience their culture and traditions. He was speaking at the 6th International read more →
UN experts seek info on Tibet’s detained environment defenders
IANS for Investing.com New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) UN human rights experts have called on the Chinese government to provide information about nine Tibetans imprisoned for their peaceful efforts to protect Tibet’s environment, which is crucial to the entire region. In a statement on Thursday, the three experts — the read more →
Chinese Authorities Release Tibetan Writer Following Four-year Prison Sentence
-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
By 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
(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
-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
-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
Beijing 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 →