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Ontario Parliament Welcomes Tibetan Leader Sikyong Penpa Tsering
-by Canada Tibet Committee Toronto, April 9, 2024 – In a pivotal moment at Queen’s Park today, the Ontario Parliamentary Friends of Tibet accorded a distinguished welcome to Hon. Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration. This assembly of international solidarity and multicultural engagement was convened by MPP Bhutila read more →
China Gives Monks a List of Things They Can’t Do After The Dalai Lama’s Death
Authorities lay out instructions in a training manual for Tibetan Buddhist monks. -by Radio Free Asia In the event of the Dalai Lama’s death, Buddhist monks are banned from displaying photos of the Tibetan spiritual leader and other “illegal religious activities and rituals,” according to a training manual Chinese authorities read more →
China blocks popular Tibetan-language blog
Luktsang Palyon, or Tibetan Sheep, is the latest online platform to succumb to Beijing’s crackdown. -by Radio Free Asia The Chinese government has shut down a popular Tibetan-language blog, angering residents of Tibet and members of the Tibetan exile community who rely on it for access to Tibetan content. In a read more →
2023 Annual Report on Human Rights Situation in Tibet Released
By Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy. 20 March 2024. Even as China ended its draconian zero-Covid policy measures in 2023, Tibetans continue to face escalating crackdowns on freedom of expression, religion and belief. Despite numerous calls from the international community to immediately halt its forced assimilation policy, Chinese read more →
2024 Two Sessions Show China will Continue Plans to Sinicize Tibet
-By International Campaign for Tibet The just-concluded annual Chinese political meetings known as the Two Sessions have shown that President Xi Jinping and his administration are turning China into an increasingly ideological security state and continuing their plans to “Sinicize” Tibetan Buddhism, as well as all other aspects of Tibetan read more →
Tibet Boarding Schools: China Accused of Trying to Silence Language
-By Micky Bristow for BBC News Tibetan educational sociologist Gyal Lo can speak Mandarin Chinese fluently – but he would rather not. He has spent the last few years telling the world about Beijing’s sweeping educational reforms in Tibetan areas, and would prefer not to use the language of people read more →
Argentina Before the International Claim for Tibet
No Latin American country made a recommendation to China on Tibet in its recent human rights review in Geneva, which reflects how far the Latin American region is from inserting itself internationally in the claim for noble causes, including countries such as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay that lived through terrible read more →
China Cracks Down on Tibetan Protest Against a Hydropower Project in Dege
China’s cascade dam project on the Drichu, the upper Yangtze River, sparked discontent among the local population. -By Dechen Palmo and Tsering Samdup for The Diplomat On February 14, hundreds of Tibetans in Derge County (Dege in Mandarin), part of the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, protested in front of the county read more →
UN Rights Chief Says China Committing Violations in Xinjiang, Tibet
-by Reuters GENEVA, March 4 (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday called on China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, including in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that read more →
Underrepresented: Tibetans Kept Out of Most Leadership Positions
-by International Campaign for Tibet Analysis of Tibetan representation in PRC leadership in 2024 It is the season of China’s annual meetings in Beijing of its National People’s Congress (parliament) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (political advisory body). Popularly called the “Two Sessions,” China has also been using these read more →
Freedom House Gives Tibet Global Freedom Score of Zero
After 65 years of Chinese occupation, Tibet’s global freedom score has now dropped all the way to zero, watchdog group Freedom House says in its new Freedom in the World report. “This score leaves no doubt that China’s occupation of Tibet has been a global catastrophe,” International Campaign for Tibet President read more →
China Arrests More than 1,000 Tibetans Protesting Chinese Dam Project
Detainees are told to bring bedding and food, suggesting they will not be released soon, sources say. -by Radio Free Asia Police on Friday arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks from at least two local monasteries, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province after they protested the construction of a dam read more →
Tibetan Monk Arrested for Publishing Books on Tibet from Exiles
By Pelbar for RFA Tibetan. A Tibetan Buddhist monk was arrested by Chinese police in June 2023 on charges of republishing books from the exiled Tibetan community and for contacting people outside the region, Radio Free Asia has learned. The whereabouts of Lobsang Thabkhey, 54, who served as librarian of read more →
Ahead of Tibetan New Year, China Urges Monks to “Expose, Denounce” Dalai Lama
-by Radio Free Asia Bearing gifts ahead of the Tibetan New Year, Chinese authorities in Tibetan-populated parts of Sichuan province visited at least 35 Buddhist monasteries, and urged eminent monks to “deeply expose and denounce” the Dalai Lama and to safeguard the “unity of the motherland.” The officials, led by read more →
Tibetan Government-in-Exile Works to Preserve Tibetan Identity
Last week, during his visit to Estonia, Penpa Tsering, the leader of the exiled Tibetan leadership, met with members of the Tibet Support Group of the Riigikogu. Astrid Kannel, an ERR correspondent, met with a Tibetan political leader to discuss the future and ambitions of his fellow Tibetans. Kannel was read more →