Lithium Discovered Near Mount Everest
By Tenzin Samten / February 18, 2022
Lithium has been discovered in the vicinity of Mount Everest in Tibet reports Chinese state media the globatimes.cn. A Chinese scientific research team has announced that this new find could be China’s third-largest deposit of the metal after “the Bailong Mountain site, in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and read more →
Former Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorating
By Tenzin Samten / February 18, 2022
Reports have emerged from Tibet that former political prisoner Dolkar’s health is deteriorating from the injuries and torture she sustained during her one year and three months in prison between 2019 and 2020. She was arrested in Kham Kardze’s Sershul County on May 3, 2019; during her imprisonment, she was read more →
“Genocide Games”: News Roundup
By Mary Trewartha / February 14, 2022
The Winter Olympics was opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday 4 February with fireworks and a light show, in the absence of many of the world’s leaders who boycotted the event in protest against China’s human rights abuses which are seen as contrary to the spirit read more →
Surveillance and Detentions in Drag-yab County and Chamdo
By Mary Trewartha / February 11, 2022
People living in Drag-yab County [Ch: Zhag’yab County] and Chamdo who have family living outside Tibet are now required to install an app on their phones, giving the Chinese authorities access to all their phone data. Anyone found with “politically sensitive” content, or evidence of contact with Tibetans living outside read more →
Tibetans in Drago County: More Arrests
By Tenzin Samten / February 9, 2022
Tibetans in Drago county in Kham [Ch: Sichuan] continue to face monitoring and surveillance, with the authorities on the lookout for any sharing of information regarding the destruction of the 99-foot Buddha, along other major religious structures,over the last two months. The latest update on their situation, reported by Radio read more →
China Ramps Up Religious Restrictions
By Tenzin Samten / February 9, 2022
The Chinese authorities have added another imposition on Tibetans as they increase their tactics to prevent communications between Tibetans inside Tibet and those in exiles and across the world. This latest move is to warn Tibetans in Tibet against the printing of photos or production of videos of Tibetan lamas read more →
Beijing Olympics: Worldwide Calls For Boycott
By Mary Trewartha / January 31, 2022
The focus of the world is on Beijing as athletes and their entourages congregate in Beijing ahead of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 4. From around the world there are calls for a boycott of the Games, saying that awarding the Games to the Olympics is against everything read more →
Rinchen Kyi: Still in Detention
By Tenzin Samten / January 30, 2022
More information has emerged about the detention of Rinchen Kyi, in her 40s, one of the longest serving teachers at the renowned, Sengdruk Taktse Tibetan Middle School in Darlak county, Golog in eastern Tibet. It was earlier reported that Kyi was ill and hospitalised, it now appears that although her read more →
Writer Held Incommunicado
By Mary Trewartha / January 27, 2022
Gendun Lhundrub, 46, the Tibetan writer and poet who was arrested in December 2020 in Amdo [Ch: Qinghai] has been held incommunicado since then; his family know nothing of his whereabouts or his health. Lhundrub was a monk at Rongwo monastery in Rebgong; Radio Free Asia reports that he was read more →
Crackdown on Drago County Continues
By Tenzin Samten / January 27, 2022
A severe crackdown has been imposed in Tibet’s Drago [Ch: Luhuo] County in Kham Karze by the Chinese authorities, with the demolition of statues of the Buddha, and of prayer wheels, together with the removal of prayer flags and the arrest of a dozen Tibetans this month. Following the destruction read more →