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Tibetan activist sentenced to prison for ‘separatist acts’ and ‘social disorder
Translated by Tenzin Dickyi for RFA Tibetan. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin. Chinese authorities sentenced a young Tibetan language activist arrested in October 2021 to four years and five months in prison, although his friends and family members remain in the dark about where he was taken, a source read more →
70 years on, Tibet continues to resist
Source: Sunday Guardian Live by Tenzin Kunga Tibetan resistance against China’s intensifying assimilationist policies is as strong as ever. London: In its attempts at countering a perceived Western pushback against what China calls its peaceful and inevitable rise, the Chinese government makes effective use of global institutional mechanisms with mixed read more →
Tibetans urge global community not to forget Tibet on World Refugee Day
-By The Print Lhasa [Tibet], June 21 (ANI): Tibetans on the occasion of World Refugee Day urged the international community to support them and collectively stand together against China, and not to forget Tibet. Benedict Rogers a human rights activist and writer highlighted the Chinese repressions of Tibet and said read more →
China using Tibet as dumping zone, destroying its environment
ANI for The Print. Lhasa [Tibet], June 18 (ANI): The nature-bound systems of Tibet are now being shattered and destroyed by Beijing for their own benefit, who are using it as a dumping zone, destroying its environment. China, which currently governs Tibet, sees the region as a dump zone rather read more →
Family of young Tibetan still in the dark 6 months after his arbitrary arrest
-By Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities arrested a young Tibetan language activist six months ago, and his whereabouts remain unknown, even to his family, sources in Tibet told RFA. Lodoe, son of Rigzin, is a university graduate in his 30s from Seshul county (in Chinese Shiqu), part of the Garze read more →
China sets information blockade after 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits Tibetan county
-By Radio Free Asia The Chinese government is imposing an information lockdown after a series of earthquakes in a Tibetan county in Sichuan province displaced more than 25,000 residents, RFA has learned. The initial quake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, hit Barkam (Maerkang in Chinese), a county-level city in read more →
Analysis: Wang Yang’s visit shows China framing Tibet as national security issue
-By International Campaign for Tibet China officially framing Tibetan activism as national security issue both for Chinese and foreign audiences, indicating a decision likely adopted at the secretive seventh Tibet Work Forum in August 2020. Chinese state media discourse on Wang Yang’s recent visit to Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous read more →
Jailed Tibetan monk not allowed to meet with family
-By Radio Free Asia Rinchen Tsultrim was convicted of ‘working to split the country’ for upholding Tibet’s national identity. A Tibetan monk serving a four-and-a-half year prison term in China for working to “split the country” has been refused permission to meet with his family, with contact restricted to brief read more →
Prominent Tibetan writer confirmed detained after year-long disappearance
-By Radio Free Asia Prominent Tibetan writer and scholar Rongwo Gangkar, who went missing more than a year ago, has been confirmed arrested by Chinese authorities, RFA’s Tibetan Service has learned. Gangkar, the 48-year-old author of such popular works as “The Knot” and “An Interview with Gendun Choephel,” was likely read more →
Resistance is Alive Inside Tibet
EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT CHINA’S DESPERATE STEPS TO WIPE OUT TIBETAN IDENTITY INSIDE OCCUPIED TIBET IS TESTIMONY TO BEIJING’S FAILURES IN WINNING LOYALTY AND HEARTS OF TIBETAN PEOPLE IN TIBET New Delhi: A common observation among a group of experts on China, Tibet and Human Rights who discussed ‘Human Rights Situation read more →
Li Jiaqi: China Lipstick King sparks Tiananmen questions
By Frances Mao BBC News Generations of younger Chinese have grown up unaware of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. But an internet scandal has raised questions about a subject the Chinese government has long tried to suppress. Li Jiaqi is one of China’s biggest internet celebrities with over 64 million read more →
Melting glaciers of Tibet worrying, troublesome for all regions
The Print – 7 June 2022 Lhasa [Tibet], June 7 (ANI): The melting glaciers of Tibet are worrying and troublesome for all the regions that depend on it as their ultimate source of water. Over 1.5 billion people across the continent of Asia rely on Tibet for their source of read more →
Tibetan delegation presents symbolic gift made from sand particles on Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee
– By ANI London [UK], June 4 (ANI): On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, a delegation from Tibet Foundation presented a special gift, made from sand particles – the sacred Sand Mandala, to her. The symbolic gift from the Tibetans was received by Prince of Waled, on behalf read more →
State Department report highlights China’s persecution of Tibetan Buddhism
-By International Campaign for Tibet Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today China is persecuting practitioners of religions “that it deems out of line with Chinese Communist Party doctrine,” including by destroying Buddhist houses of worship, and referenced discrimination faced by Tibetan Buddhists. Blinken was speaking at the release of read more →
Tibetan monasteries face tighter control under new religious financial management measures
-By International Campaign for Tibet Controls on Tibetan Buddhist monasteries look set to tighten with the coming into force of China’s “Measures for the Financial Management of Religious Activity Sites.” The measures jointly formulated by China’s National Administration for Religious Affairs and Ministry of Finance come into effect today, June read more →