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Assam: Lecture highlights China’s dams on Brahmaputra, Tibetan culture
Northeast Now-21 December 2021 A lecture on ‘Brahmaputra valley and Tibetan Culture’ was organised on Monday by the Department of Anthropology, DHS Kanoi College in association with Free Tibet-A Voice from Assam at Srimanta Sankardev Sabhakakhya in DHS Kanoi College on Monday. While speaking on the topic, Soumyadeep Datta, regional convenor, Northeast read more →
U.S. Under Secretary of State Zeya designated as Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues
Reuters – 20 December 2021 Dec 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Under Secretary of State Uzra Zeya was designated as the U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Monday. “She will also continue to serve as Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, read more →
Chinese Authorities Double Down on Tibetan Reincarnations
-Human Rights Watch Communist Party Aims to Control Dalai Lama Selection. In late November, a senior local Chinese Communist Party official toured three townships in Sog, a county in the Tibet Autonomous Region that has a history of resistance to state controls on religion. His goal: to ensure local Tibetan officials endorse government read more →
Support Olympic boycott, ex-political prisoner urges Luxembourg
Delano-by Cordula Schnuer Dhondup Wangchen spent six years in a Chinese prison for producing a film about Tibet in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. He is now on a whistle-stop tour across Europe to call for a boycott of the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing. Wangchen remembers the day he read more →
Tibetan monk missing more than a year after arrest
Radio Free Asia-14 December 2021 Authorities have been silent about his whereabouts or a possible trial date. A Tibetan monk arrested more than a year ago in western China’s Sichuan province is being held incommunicado, with no word given by police to his family concerning his whereabouts or possible date read more →
Tibetan monk sentenced to five years for publishing writings of the Dalai Lama
-Free Tibet 20-year-old Trinley’s family was left uninformed for two months. In September 2021, Trinley, a Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba County (Ch: Aba), was given a five-year prison sentence after being found guilty of publishing the teachings and writings of the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the read more →
U.S. lawmakers urge Biden to meet Dalai Lama
U.S. lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden to meet with the Dalai Lama in a bid to ensure that Tibetans’ rights remain high on the agenda. Since George H.W. Bush in 1991, every sitting U.S. president has met the Tibetan spiritual leader except Donald Trump as read more →
Tibetan writer given 10-year prison term in secret trial
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Lhuboom Go Sherab Gyatso had written books and articles describing restrictions on Tibetans living under Chinese rule. A Chinese court in Tibet has given a 10-year prison term to a Tibetan writer and educator known for expressing loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, with read more →
Tibetan students lock themselves to Olympic rings to protest Beijing games
-Reuters LAUSANNE, Dec 11- Two Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings outside the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee on Saturday to call for an international boycott of next year’s winter games. The pair were part of the latest protest against the 2022 Olympic Games over Beijing’s read more →
Tibetan President Penpa Tsering: Priority is to restart talks with China
The Week-By Namrata Biji Ahuja Penpa Tsering, sikyong (president) of the Dharamshala-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has plans to expose the growing Chinese belligerence along the Indian border. The hawkish leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile has ordered his ministry of state security to prepare a report on the activities of read more →
China eyes bolstering mining across Tibet
Asia Times-by Dhondup Wangmo Before the invasion of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), mining was rarely conducted in that region. Within the Tibetan cultural sphere, mining and ground disturbance are often said to remove “the bcud [nutrition or essence] of the earth, of which minerals are [a] primary form.” During the read more →
Journalists in China face ‘nightmare’ worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says
-The Guardian Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in “freefall”, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). In a major report released on Wednesday, the journalism advocacy group detailed the worsening treatment of journalists and tightening of control read more →
Vast colonial boarding school system uncovered in Tibet
-By East Mojo Children as young as four are separated from parents, subjected to indocrination. Chinese government policies are forcing three out of every four Tibetan students into a vast network of colonial boarding schools, separating children as young as four from their parents, Tibet Action Institute revealed in a report on read more →
UK, Canada join diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Games
Reuters-December 9, 2021 OTTAWA/BEIJING, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Canada joined Australia, Britain and the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Wednesday, with China calling the boycotts “political posturing” and a smear campaign. The United States was the first to announce the boycott this week, saying read more →
Australia joins diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
-ABC News Australian officials will not attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, in a formal boycott of the Games over China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur minorities in the country. The US this week confirmed it would not send any diplomats or officials to the Games, while still allowing its athletes to read more →