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Tibetan writer released from prison in China after serving 13 years
-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
U.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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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 →
An Important Anniversary Reminds Us: Don’t Forget About Tibet
The Diplomat-By Andy Levin On the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation, we must put Tibetan rights center stage in U.S. foreign policy once again. In 1982, I walked across the 13,058 ft Rohtang Pass near the Tibetan cultural area of Ladakh and marveled at how there was read more →
Commemorating the 63rd Tibetan Uprising Day – 10th March
Times of India-Written by Shri Ajit Kamath The 10 of March marks a very important day for Tibetan people all over the world. It was on this day in 1959, when the Tibetans (in Tibet) revolted against the forcible occupation of their motherland by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This revolt was read more →
Go Sherab Gyatso: Prominent Tibetan Monk Tortured in Jail
-Bitter Winter Well-known as author and lecturer, he was sentenced to ten years in November 2021. Human rights activists are denouncing on social media that a well-known Tibetan monk’s health is seriously deteriorating as a result of torture he is subjected to in Lhasa’s Qushui Prison. Go Sherab Gyatso is a monk born read more →
Security tight in Tibet’s Lhasa on anniversary of uprising
-By Radio Free Asia Police were out in force in the capital after a young Tibetan set himself on fire in protest days earlier. Security was noticeably tightened in Tibet’s capital Lhasa Thursday on the sensitive anniversary of an uprising against Beijing’s rule, according to sources in the region, barely read more →
Tibetan school year begins with classes taught only in Chinese
-By Radio Free Asia Critics say the policy will weaken Tibetan students’ connection to their national language and culture. Tibetan children returning to their schools after winter break are now entering classes taught only in Chinese, as authorities push forward with policies that critics say are aimed at weakening students’ read more →
Tibet least-free country alongside South Sudan, Syria in new ranking
-By International Campaign for Tibet Tibet is the least-free country on Earth, in a tie with South Sudan and Syria, according to new rankings from the watchdog group Freedom House. Tibet—a historically independent country that China has brutally occupied for over 60 years—has a global freedom score of 1 out of read more →
Analysis: Sinicizing Tibetans in a Chinese nation-state
-International Campaign for Tibet For implementing the top-level design of “Sinicization” of Tibetans in a Chinese nation-state, the Chinese Communist Party convened an “ethnic work conference” in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, in early February. The provincial leaders of the Tibet Autonomous Region’s Communist Party, government, political body, judiciary, military and armed police attended read more →
Chinese government destroys third Tibetan Buddhist statue in 3 months
-Radio Free Asia The razing of Padmasambhava is seen as the latest infringement on Tibetan religious freedom. The Chinese government has demolished a third Tibetan Buddhist statue in what sources told RFA is the latest example of official efforts to stamp out the Tibetans’ religious traditions. The statue of Padmasambhava, read more →