COVID-19 Update
By Tenzin Samten / September 1, 2021
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) COVID-19 task force has reported a decline in the number of cases among Tibetan refugees living in India and Nepal. Their weekly briefing on August 27 stated there were 55 new infections and two deaths during the previous week. Tenzin Dolkar from the CTA’s Health read more →
Sikyong Penpa Tsering Visits Ladakh (Updated)
By Tenzin Samten and Mary Trewartha / August 27, 2021
Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the newly elected President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), also known as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile,has embarked on his first official travel as Sikyong outside Dharamshala by visiting the Tibetan communities in Ladakh in the far north of India. Sikyong arrived in Sonamling Tibetan Settlement on August read more →
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teachings this Month
By Tenzin Samten / August 26, 2021
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans and Buddhists across the world, is keeping in touch with his followers through virtual teachings from his residence in Dharamshala. This month, His Holiness gave three teachings on different topics,each requested by a different group of people. During the read more →
Tibetan Poet Dies
By Mary Trewartha / August 26, 2021
Tsepa, 29, a Tibetan poet known as Chenbang, who’s writing was critical of Chinese policies in Tibet, has died, reports Radio Free Asia. Tsepa was arrested and interrogated by the Chinese police in Tibet and subsequently suffered from health problems and alcohol abuse. He died as a result of these read more →
Roadside Attack on Tibetans
By Mary Trewartha / August 18, 2021
Two Tibetans who were travelling in a private car have been attacked without provocation at a police roadside checkpoint in central Tibet, reports UK based Tibet advocacy group Tibet Watch. One, Rigdrak, insisted he was not carrying anything illegal and asked the police to show an investigation warrant, he was read more →
Prisoner’s Testimony
By Mary Trewartha / August 18, 2021
Dorjee Tashi, the imprisoned Tibetan businessman and philanthropist who is in critical health following years of torture while in prison has documented the treatment he received during his pre-trial detention. The International Campaign for Tibet has published his testimony which details beatings with electric batons, being cuffed to an iron read more →
Monastery shutdown: Forced eviction of Monks and Nuns
By Tenzin Samten / August 9, 2021
Video footage has emerged from Linxia in Gansu province in north central China showing the Chinese authorities shutting down Kharmar [ch: Hongcheng] Monastery, a Tibetan monastery known as the Red City Temple, or Royal Order of Pagoda Temple, and forcibly evicting the monks and nuns living there from their residences. read more →
China Builds Tibetan Military School Near Indian Border
By Tsering Wangdue / August 9, 2021
New military camps for Tibetan youth have been set up in the south eastern Tibetan town of Nyingtri, just across the border from India’s north eastern Arunachal Pradesh state, which China claims as its own territory, and where there are ongoing border skirmishes between China and India. The camps were read more →
Tibetans Required to Submit Details of their Relatives Living in Exile
By Tenzin Samten / August 4, 2021
Tibetans in Dingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s (TAR) Shigatse prefecture were ordered by the Chinese authorities to report names and other personal information relating to any family they have living outside Tibet. Tibetans were threatened with loss of state benefits such as land and housing for noncompliance, reports read more →
China Ups their Systematic Suppression of the Tibetan Language
By Tenzin Samten / July 27, 2021
Tibetans living in Tibet are losing their right, and the facilities to study in their native language in the face of the Chinese government’s systematic shutdown of schools whose primary medium of instruction was Tibetan. The latest school to be closed by the authorities was Sengdruk Taktse middle school in read more →