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Dalai Lama, Other Nobel Winners Demand Explicit Vow Not to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine
By Jon Queally – commondreams.org – March 26, 2022 The Dalai Lama is among 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates who jointly issued an open letter Saturday calling for the immediate end of the attack on Ukraine and an explicit vow from both Russia and NATO forces that nuclear weapons of read more →
China extends restrictions on Tibetan language use in apps, streaming services: Report
Reported by ANI for The Print. Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], March 28 (ANI): The Chinese government has extended its restrictions on the Tibetan language on various online platforms and video streaming services, said a media report. In its report, Phayul said that due to these restrictions sources fear another push read more →
Funeral for popular Tibetan lama restricted by Chinese police
-Radio Free Asia Choktrul Dawa Rinpoche had been jailed for years for opposing Chinese rule. Funeral observances for a popular Tibetan lama were blocked early this year by Chinese police who barred devotees from attending and deleted images of the religious leader that were shared online, RFA has learned. Choktrul read more →
‘Resume dialogue with Dalai Lama…’: Tibetan leaders as China FM visits India
Hindustan Times-25 March 2022 Chinese foreign minister and state councilor Wang Yi landed in Delhi on Thursday. Tibetan MPs in-exile, who are living in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala, have called upon the government to urge China to resume the dialogue with spiritual leader Dalai Lama. This comes as Chinese foreign minister read more →
China streamers scrub Keanu Reeves titles over his support for Tibet
REBECCA DAVIS for Los Angeles Times. Actor Keanu Reeves may now be kaput in China, despite his past close collaboration with its film authorities and decades of mega-stardom spanning the length of the country’s engagement with Hollywood. In the wake of his show of support for Tibet earlier this month, read more →
Human rights advocates urge UN rights chief to visit Tibet
tTanslated by Tenzin Dyicki. Written in English by Eugene Whong. The United Nations human rights chief must include Tibet on the itinerary of her planned trip to China in May, human rights groups told RFA. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced earlier this month that she had read more →
China blocks use of Tibetan language on learning apps, streaming services
-By Radio Free Asia The move aims at Tibetans’ further assimilation into China’s dominant Han Chinese culture, sources say. Chinese government restrictions on use of the Tibetan language have now spread to video services and other online platforms, as Beijing continues to push the assimilation of China’s ethnic minorities into read more →
Human rights and Beijing Summit: the EU must not remain silent on Chinese crimes
Asia News – 22 March 2022 Beijing (AsiaNews) – “While we understand that the main topic of discussions will be the Ukraine crisis and the Chinese government’s position on it, we urge you to dedicate adequate time to also discuss those authorities’ assaults on human rights both within and increasingly read more →
Children’s edition of ‘The Book of Joy’ coming this fall
22 March 2022 – AP NEW YORK (AP) — A picture-book edition of a bestseller co-authored by the Nobel Peace Prize winners the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be published this fall. Random House Children’s Books announced Tuesday that “The Little Book of Joy” will come out Sept. read more →
Tibetan writer released from prison in China after serving 13 years
-By Radio Free Asia Kunchok Tsephel was editor of a website promoting classical and modern Tibetan literature. A Tibetan writer jailed for 15 years for writings deemed separatist by Chinese authorities has been released two years before finishing his sentence, with no word immediately available regarding his present state of read more →
Promoting Accountability for Transnational Repression Committed by People’s Republic of China (PRC) Officials
U.S. Department of State-21 March The Department of State is taking action against PRC officials for their involvement in repressive acts against members of ethnic and religious minority groups and religious and spiritual practitioners inside and outside of China’s borders, including within the United States. The United States rejects efforts read more →
INTERVIEW | Tibet’s Tsewang Gyalpo Arya: Putin and Xi are Dangers to Humanity
-Japan Forward The Dalai Lama’s liaison for Japan and East Asia predicts that Russia’s Putin will fail in Ukraine just like China has failed to erase Tibet’s religion, language, and way of life. JAPAN Forward sat down with Dr. Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, the representative of the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai read more →
US government funding bill increases Tibet support
-By International Campaign for Tibet The bill that President Joe Biden signed into law today to fund the US government also expands US support for the Tibetan people, including by challenging China’s occupation of Tibet and strengthening US calls for dialogue on Tibet’s future. “By passing this bill, the US read more →
Three children arrested in Tibet for language lessons complaint
-By Free Tibet The secondary school students are believed to have been taken to a so-called “reform through education centre” in Markham county. In October 2021, Chinese authorities in the so-called ‘Tibetan Autonomous Region’ arrested three secondary school students for showing displeasure at the lack of Tibetan language classes. In read more →
Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu confirmed dead due to extreme burn
-By International Campaign for Tibet Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu died in the People’s Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region (Chinese: Xīzàng zìzhìqū rénmín yīyuàn, 西藏自治区人民医院) in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa in the first weekend of March 2022, reliable sources have informed the International Campaign for Tibet. One source confirmed that read more →