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US Congress’ commitment to human rights in China is bipartisan: Nancy Pelosi
Washington [US], February 22 (ANI): US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday reaffirmed US Congress’ bipartisan commitment to human rights issues in China. Pelosi made these remarks after meeting several rights activists including Nathan Law and Rahima Mahmut. “As a longtime leader in fighting the PRC’s human rights abuses, it read more →
TOP 5 CAMPAIGN WINS FOR NO BEIJING 2022
Free Tibet The Beijing Winter Olympics were a public relations and rating flop, but there was one clear winner: the No Beijing 2022 campaign. From dramatically reduced viewership around the world to the attention that has been drawn to the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, Free Tibet wants to read more →
Winter-Olympics in Beijing was a “Genocide Olympics”
Reported by Vijay Kranti New Delhi – 20 Feb 2022: The leaders of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and the bosses of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) might have many reasons to feel happy and relieved over the ‘successful’ conclusion of the Beijing Winter Olympics-2022. But the way the read more →
Beware if China calls for truce! When the ‘pacification of Tibet’ meant its complete annihilation
Firstpost-by Claude Arpi Just as ‘truce’ doesn’t have the same meaning for the outside world as for Mao’s children, ‘pacification’ for the Great Helmsman in the 1950s was not what we usually understand. Today, very few remember that as far back as 776 BC, the Greeks had introduced the Olympic read more →
Three monks in Drago severely ill after six years of torture
-By Tibet Watch Arrested after the 2012 Drago protests, three monks were subjected to forced labour and denied adequate food Tibet Watch has learned that three senior monks from Drago Monastery are still severely ill after their release from prison four years ago. The three monks, Tsewang Namgyal, Dalha, and read more →
‘Never Forget Tibet: The Dalai Lama’s Untold Story’: Debut Trailer For Hugh Bonneville-Narrated Doc
-Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Here you can watch the first trailer for upcoming documentary Never Forget Tibet: The Dalai Lama’s Untold Story. Narrated by Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, the pic will be released on March 31 by Fathom Events in 800 theaters across the U.S. The date marks the 63rd anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s read more →
Webinar on ‘Tibet Was Never a Part of China’ urges global communities to support their movement
The Print New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): An international webinar “Tibet Was Never a Part of China”, organized on February 14 to mark the 109th anniversary of ‘Proclamation of Independence of Tibet’ on 13th February 1913, urged the global community to support Tibet’s independence from China’s illegal rule. Unchallenged read more →
Chinese surveillance unit operating inside Tibetan Buddhist monastery
-Radio Free Asia Police inside keep an eye on monks day and night, says a source. A Chinese police surveillance unit is operating, apparently for the first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a renewed crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist religious institutions, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation read more →
Beijing Has Dimmed Spotlight on Tibetan Oppression Since 2008 Olympics
The New York Sun-By Jeremy Furchtgott Leading American politicians are calling the 2022 Beijing Olympics the “Genocide Games” in highlighting China’s oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. This year’s concerns echo those about Tibetans in the leadup to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Remember, Tibetan protests and the Chinese government’s response back read more →
Massive Arrests of Tibetan Buddhists in Sichuan After Statue Protests
HE YUYAN for Bitter Winter In December 2021, Bitter Winter reported that a 30-meter (99-feet) tall statue of the Buddha had been destroyed by the authorities in Drakgo (Ch. Luhuo). Drakgo is under the administration of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is part of Kham, one of the regions of historical Tibet, now incorporated into read more →
Tibetan nomads sent to labor camps for politically sensitive material on cell phones
-Radio Free Asia The detentions come amid increased surveillance of Tibetans in and around Drago county. Authorities in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region are detaining more nomadic Tibetans in Drago county and sending them to labor camps for having content deemed politically inappropriate on their cell phones, people with knowledge of read more →
As the Olympics heat up, China clamps down on dissent
Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu for CNN Beijing (CNN)As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the extensive Olympic “bubble” — a zone sealing off visiting athletes, media and participants from the rest of the host city to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But in a read more →
Delegation of Tibetan parliament-in-exile meets RJD MP, discusses issues of worsening human rights situation
-The Print New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): A delegation of Tibetan parliament-in-exile has met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Amarendra Dhari Singh who raised the Tibetians issue in Parliament, and discussed the worsening human rights situation in the country by China. “Chinese have really crackdown not just on the read more →
This Week in History: Tibet’s ‘Declaration of Independence’
On Nightlife with Indira Naidoo for ABC News As the concept of the nation-state emerged in the early 20th century, Tibet’s leader, the Dalai Lama proclaimed in 1913 that his country was, and had been an independent country for well over 1000 years. Today China claims Tibet, and Tibetans argue read more →
Buddhist scholar Rinpoche slams China for destroying Buddhism and identity of Tibetans
Anurag Roushan for The Republic World LLing Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher, chastised China for undermining Buddhism to destroy Tibetan identity. Addressing a press conference in Sri Lanka, he claimed that China has been perpetrating inhumane and bestial atrocities against Tibetans for decades. He further lambasted China for destroying read more →