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Tibetans Reveal Harsh Conditions Under China’s Zero COVID Policy
-By Radio Free Asia The Chinese government ordered the lockdown of Lhasa but did not prepare for it in advance, sources said. Tibetan netizens are taking to social media to air their frustrations with the Chinese government’s zero COVID policy, which has completely shut down Lhasa and other areas of read more →
‘At the Breaking Point’: Tibetans, Under Lockdown, Make Rare Cries for Help
The New York Times – by Vivian Wang China’s ever-tightening Covid rules have prompted public complaints from residents of areas usually intimidated into keeping quiet. BEIJING — Infected patients quarantined alongside those who tested negative. No food for hours, despite repeated requests. Lines of buses, loaded with people, waiting late read more →
China uses ‘books’ to justify wrongful claims over Tibet
ANI for The Print. Lhasa [Tibet], September 14 (ANI): Upholding its repeated claim over Tibet, China is now using books as a tool to distort the view of its invasion of Tibet and justify its wrongful claims over the region. By publishing and distributing multilingual versions of the history books read more →
View: Confer Bharat Ratna on Dalai Lama, reassert moral authority
Synopsis The All-Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet recently proposed Bharat Ratna for the Dalai Lama in reverberation of public opinion for the same. By Sujeet Kumar & Seema Sindhu, The Economic Times. Close to a lakh Tibetans in exile commemorated the 62nd founding anniversary of the Tibetan Parliament on read more →
China: New Evidence of Mass DNA Collection in Tibet
Reported by Human Rights Watch. (New York) – Chinese authorities are significantly increasing policing, including arbitrary collection of DNA from residents in many towns and villages throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Human Rights Watch said today. The available information indicates that people cannot decline providing their DNA and that police read more →
Sikyong Penpa Tsering Pushes for EU Representative for Tibet in Czech Meeting
-By Tibetan Review (TibetanReview.net, Aug31’22) – Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Aug 30 met with representatives of the Czech Senate in Prague and discussed the possibility of creating an EU representative for questions related to Chinese occupied Tibet, reported english.radio.cz, citing the Czech News read more →
World Community and U.N Should Take Urgent Steps to Stop Disappearance and Cultural Genocide in China’s Colonies
-By Vijay Kranti, CHASE Experts from Tibet, East Turkistan and S. Mongolia raise common voice in an international webinar to mark the ‘UN Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearance’. New Delhi, 30 August: In addition to thousands of citizens of Tibet, East Turkistan and Southern Mongolia who disappear every read more →
China continues to suppress Tibet over human rights
Beijing [China], August 30 (ANI): Chinese persecution against Tibetans continues to be harsh in the country by imposing crackdowns, sentences, killings, intimidation, and harassment of individuals who do not adhere to Beijing’s so-called policies. According to Radio Free Asia, China has ordered leaders of two counties that are presently part read more →
Hail, torrential rain leave at least 31 dead in Tibetan-populated areas of China
-By Radio Free Asia The wild weather also kills thousands of heads of livestock and damages property. Hail and heavy rain caused the deaths of at least 31 people in Tibetan-populated counties in northwestern China’s Qinghai and Gansu provinces, Tibetan sources said. More than 2,000 heads of livestock were also killed read more →
Foreign Politicians Support Resolve Tibet Act
-By International Campaign for Tibet The Resolve Tibet Act has only been in Congress for a few weeks, but it’s already getting support from leaders in other countries. A British Member of Parliament praised the bill in a written post shortly after Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced read more →
Buddhism with Chinese characteristics: Panchen Lama pushes President Xi Jinping’s version of religion in Tibet
Lhasa (Tibet): China appointed Panchen Lama or more accurately puppet Lama Gyaltsen Norbu recently grabbed headlines for pushing the Chinese claim of Tibetan Buddhism with Chinese characteristics. This version of Buddhism being presented by Gyaltsen Norbu is the vision that President Xi Jinping wants to enforce in Tibet, according to Tibet read more →
UN Rapporteur Finds Evidence of Forced Labor in Xinjiang, Tibet
Voice of America – by Asim Kashgarian WASHINGTON – Coerced labor among Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic groups has been taking place in China’s Xinjiang and Tibet, according to a report released by Tomoya Obokata, the U.N. special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. Special rapporteurs, according to the American Civil read more →
COVID in Tibet: Tibetans Say Dismissal of Three Officials Merely Symbolic
-By International Campaign for Tibet Chinese authorities in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa have dismissed three officials in the health bureau amid a botched response to a COVID-19 outbreak there. However, Tibetans tell the International Campaign for Tibet the dismissals are not meaningful. State media reported on Aug. 14 that Fan read more →
Solid Alliance of all Chinese Colonies and Threatened Countries is Needed to End Chinese Colonialism
Experts and leaders of Chinese colonies like Tibet, East Turkistan, Southern Mongolia and Hong Kong and Taiwan speak on a rare common platform New Delhi: On 13th August Leaders of China’s major colonies like Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), Southern Mongolia, and Hong Kong and experts belonging to Taiwan, democracy movement read more →
Chinese tourists suspected cause of COVID outbreak in Tibetan cities
-By International Campaign for Tibet The reported COVID-19 outbreaks in Tibet may be the result of Chinese tourism encouraged by the Chinese government, according to observers inside Tibet. Commenters have also been complaining about inadequate infrastructure to combat the pandemic in Tibet. Although China almost never allows journalists, diplomats and tourists read more →