Tibetan Representation at China’s Communist Party Conference?
By Mary Trewartha / October 10, 2022
Thirty-eight delegates listed as Tibetan are expected to participate in the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, scheduled to begin on October 1, reports the International Campaign for Tibet, an affiliation of organisations promoting human rights, democratic freedoms and self-determination for the Tibetan people. These Tibetan read more →
Covid Lockdown Suicides
By Tenzin Samten / September 30, 2022
China’s ongoing enforcement of their Zero-Covid Policy in Tibet’s capital city Lhasa has driven five Tibetans to commit suicide in the three days between September 23 to 25, reports Dharamshala based research and rights group The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). Forty nine days have passed since read more →
Reincarnation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama : CTA Statement
By Staff Reporter / September 30, 2022
The Kashag (Cabinet) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), also known as the Tibetan Government-in Exile, has issued a statement on the position of the reincarnation of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The Kashag stated that the Chinese government introduced a law, Management Measures for the Reincarnation of Living read more →
Beaten to Death for Helping Elderly People
By Tenzin Samten / September 28, 2022
Ngodup Tsering, a Tibetan man from Dartsedo County in Kham Karze was arrested and beaten to death by Chinese police officers, reports the Tibet Times. He was arrested on September 27 when he was returning from an old peoples’ home after providing food and supplies to the people living there. read more →
China’s Mismanaged Zero-Covid Policy Endangers Tibetan Lives in Tibet : Press Statement from the Kashag
By Tenzin Samten / September 27, 2022
The Chinese authorities have been enforcing zero-Covid policies in Tibet’s capital city Lhasa and neighbouring regions since last month with no preparation and policies in place for handling the complete lockdown. Grievances of Tibetans living inside these regions are being shared on various Chinese media platforms. The Tibetan Government-in-Exile’s Kashag read more →
Digital Control of Religion in China
By Barkha Mathur / September 27, 2022
The Chinese authorities are using digital authoritarianism to exert control over religious practices in the country, posing a threat to people in the minority regions of Tibet and East Turkestan (Ch: Xinjiang). This was highlighted during a hearing held on September 13 by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), an read more →
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Awarded Spendlove Prize
By Phurbu Lhamo / September 27, 2022
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been awarded the 15th Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance, an award given annually to honour inspirational individuals who can serve as a role model, for the University of California, Merced. The US$15,000 award was given to His Holiness read more →
Arbitrary Detentions in Tibet
By Tenzin Samten / September 26, 2022
The Chinese authorities in Keygudo [Ch: Yushu] in eastern Tibet arrested Tsetan, a resident of Ditoe County in Keygudo, last month. In the month since his detention in Yushu’s Trindhu city, no information has been released of his whereabouts, the reasons for neither his arrest nor the state of his read more →
Five Arrested, One Death in Detention
By Tenzin Samten / September 23, 2022
Five Tibetans have been arrested in Serta county in Kham Kardze for organising religious activities; one died in detention, reports Tibet Watch, the United Kingdom based non-government group working to promote the human rights of the Tibetan people through monitoring, research and advocacy. Chudhar, Gelo, Tsedor, Bhamo and Kori from read more →
Lockdown in Tibet –Mismanagement and Public Frustration
By Phurbu Lhamo / September 22, 2022
Tibetans in Lhasa, along with neighbouring regions in the Chinese segregated Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), have been facing sudden Covid-19 lockdown protocols since early August with no preparation or warning in advance from the authorities. People have taken to Chinese social media platforms to express their frustration over the inadequate read more →