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Tibetan political prisoner in poor health said to be released from jail
Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok Norzin Wangmo was sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2020 for sharing news about a Tibetan who self-immolated. Chinese authorities have released Tibetan political prisoner Norzin Wangmo, who was arrested in 2020 and sentenced to three years in prison for sharing information read more →
Another Tibetan man arrested for WeChat comments
-By Free Tibet Palsang allegedly posted criticism of China’s increasingly tight restrictions on the Tibetan language. Tibet Watch has learned of the arrest of a Tibetan man in eastern Tibet in November 2021 in connection with posts he made in the messaging app WeChat. Palsang, a 24 year old man read more →
Tibetan couple arrested for communicating with exiled relatives
-By Tibet Watch Two Tibetans have been arrested in Gyalser County, accused of communicating with exiled family members. On 17 April 2022, a Tibetan man suspected of contacting his relatives who are living in exile, was arrested by Chinese police in Gyalser County along with his wife. Loga is 36 read more →
India will take right call on reincarnation of Dalai Lama, says Tibetan leader Tsering
By Prashant Jha, Hindustan Times -Published on May 04, 2022 12:00 AM IST Washington: Expressing full faith in the Indian government, Penpa Tsering, the head of the Central Tibetan Administration, has said India will take the right position at the right time on the question of the reincarnation of the Dalai read more →
China completes Pangong Tso bridge, now making road to link Tibet garrison, satellite images show
SNEHESH ALEX PHILIP for The Print New Delhi: China has completed the construction of a strategic bridge over Pangong Tso on territory it holds in Khurnak, the narrowest part of the lake that straddles Ladakh and Tibet. It’s now building roads to connect this to one of its biggest military garrisons read more →
US special coordinator for Tibet set to visit India in mid-May to meet Dalai Lama
The Tribune. US Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, Uzra Zeya, is set to visit India next month to hold talks with Dalai Lama and other senior leaders of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, signalling the Biden administration’s commitment to the Tibetan cause. It will be the first high-level read more →
Allow Panchen Lama to live free life: Tibetan government-in-exile to China
Times of India – 25 April 2022 DHARAMSHALA: The central tibetan administration (CTA) on Monday asked the Chinese government to allow the 11th Panchen Lama and his family members, taken into custody by China 27 years ago and not seen in public since then, to live a free life. The read more →
Rinchen Kyi released after eight months in detention
-By Free Tibet The Tibetan teacher and political detainee Rinchen Kyi has been released after eight months in detention. According to information supplied by Tibet Watch, Free Tibet’s research partner, Rinchen Kyi was secretly returned home by police at 8pm local time on Sunday 24 April. Rinchen Kyi is from read more →
Tibet’s leader seeks U.S. action to end China’s ‘cultural eradication’
PHELIM KINE for Politico The head of the Tibetan government in exile is making a rare visit to Washington this week to rally Biden administration support in pressuring China to address decadeslong grievances of Tibetans living under Chinese rule. Sikyong Penpa Tsering wants China to lift a 12-year freeze on official dialogue read more →
Tibetan village leaders told to ‘Speak in Chinese’
Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok and Yangdon Chinese officials in rural areas of Tibet are forcing village leaders to speak in Chinese, as authorities move forward with campaigns aimed at restricting the use by Tibetans of their native language, RFA has learned. Workshops launched at the end of last read more →
Tibet’s New College Admission Rules: No University for Dalai Lama Supporters
Lopsang Gurung for Bitter Winter. CCP propaganda continuously tells the world that, thanks to China, Tibet now has a regular university system, which did not exist under the “backward” Dalai Lama administration. Of course, the university system evolved in the last decades, but the same happened in many Asian countries read more →
Tibet builds makeshift Covid hospitals despite one case since pandemic began
The Guardian – 22 April 2022 Authorities in Tibet are building massive Covid isolation and care facilities in anticipation of further outbreaks in China even though the remote territory has reported only one case during the pandemic. Temporary hospitals – a key feature of China’s Covid response – with at least 1,000 read more →
Demolition of Buddha statues follows tightened control under “law-based governance”
-By International Campaign for Tibet The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered a series of demolitions of structures of religious significance and detentions of Tibetans resisting it in Draggo (Chinese: Luhuo) County in eastern Tibet. The demolitions came a year after the CCP established in late 2020 “Xi Jinping Thought on read more →
UN High Commissioner must uphold principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis
-By Human Rights Watch UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on 8 March that she has secured a visit to China ‘foreseen to take place in May’. Her announcement in an update to the UN Human Rights Council comes three and a half years after she publicly read more →
In Trade, China Has a Sharp Edge Over India, and Sharp Things Can Be Weaponized
By Krzysztof Iwanek – The Diplomat – 28 March 2022 If there were to be an India-China conflict, would we see them engage in economic warfare, as now seen between the West and Russia? As I am writing this, in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we can see read more →