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Press Statement: Marking 29 Years Since the Panchen Lama’s Disappearance
Press Statement Matthew Miller, Department Spokesperson 17 May 2024 Today marks 29 years since the People’s Republic of China (PRC) abducted the 11th Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism, as a six-year-old child. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima remains missing and has not appeared in public since read more →
Tibetan Singer Arrested for Song Lamenting Dalai Lama’s Absence
Blasting Beijing for ‘false’ leadership, the lyrics yearn for freedom for the Tibetans. -by Radio Free Asia “In this land where the Victorious One is absent, Leaders exist, but false ones. The Tibetans are bereft of direction, Like a deer lost in the midst of a fog…” A Tibetan performer read more →
CECC Report Highlights China’s Restrictions in Tibet
-by International Campaign for Tibet A new report by a U.S. government commission found that China is violating international human rights standards by punishing Tibetans for expressing their religious beliefs, criticizing PRC policies, and sharing information online. The 2023 annual report issued by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) says read more →
US Commission Highlights China’s Growing ‘Sinicization’ of Tibetan Buddhism
-by International Campaign for Tibet The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2024 annual report, published May 1, highlights the deterioration of religious freedom in Tibet due to the Chinese government’s intensified suppression and “Sinicization” of Tibetan Buddhism. Sinicization is a Chinese policy that aims to bring Tibetan Buddhism read more →
2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: China (Includes Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year in China against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang. Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government; enforced disappearances by the government; torture by read more →
Blinken must raise Tibet, Panchen Lama on China trip
-by International Campaign for Tibet US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken must raise the “deteriorating” situation in Tibet both privately and publicly during his trip this week to China, the International Campaign for Tibet said today. ICT, an advocacy group that promotes human rights and democratic freedoms for the read more →
Ontario Parliament Welcomes Tibetan Leader Sikyong Penpa Tsering
-by Canada Tibet Committee Toronto, April 9, 2024 – In a pivotal moment at Queen’s Park today, the Ontario Parliamentary Friends of Tibet accorded a distinguished welcome to Hon. Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration. This assembly of international solidarity and multicultural engagement was convened by MPP Bhutila read more →
China Gives Monks a List of Things They Can’t Do After The Dalai Lama’s Death
Authorities lay out instructions in a training manual for Tibetan Buddhist monks. -by Radio Free Asia In the event of the Dalai Lama’s death, Buddhist monks are banned from displaying photos of the Tibetan spiritual leader and other “illegal religious activities and rituals,” according to a training manual Chinese authorities read more →
China blocks popular Tibetan-language blog
Luktsang Palyon, or Tibetan Sheep, is the latest online platform to succumb to Beijing’s crackdown. -by Radio Free Asia The Chinese government has shut down a popular Tibetan-language blog, angering residents of Tibet and members of the Tibetan exile community who rely on it for access to Tibetan content. In a read more →
2023 Annual Report on Human Rights Situation in Tibet Released
By Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy. 20 March 2024. Even as China ended its draconian zero-Covid policy measures in 2023, Tibetans continue to face escalating crackdowns on freedom of expression, religion and belief. Despite numerous calls from the international community to immediately halt its forced assimilation policy, Chinese read more →
2024 Two Sessions Show China will Continue Plans to Sinicize Tibet
-By International Campaign for Tibet The just-concluded annual Chinese political meetings known as the Two Sessions have shown that President Xi Jinping and his administration are turning China into an increasingly ideological security state and continuing their plans to “Sinicize” Tibetan Buddhism, as well as all other aspects of Tibetan read more →
Tibet Boarding Schools: China Accused of Trying to Silence Language
-By Micky Bristow for BBC News Tibetan educational sociologist Gyal Lo can speak Mandarin Chinese fluently – but he would rather not. He has spent the last few years telling the world about Beijing’s sweeping educational reforms in Tibetan areas, and would prefer not to use the language of people read more →
Argentina Before the International Claim for Tibet
No Latin American country made a recommendation to China on Tibet in its recent human rights review in Geneva, which reflects how far the Latin American region is from inserting itself internationally in the claim for noble causes, including countries such as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay that lived through terrible read more →
China Cracks Down on Tibetan Protest Against a Hydropower Project in Dege
China’s cascade dam project on the Drichu, the upper Yangtze River, sparked discontent among the local population. -By Dechen Palmo and Tsering Samdup for The Diplomat On February 14, hundreds of Tibetans in Derge County (Dege in Mandarin), part of the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, protested in front of the county read more →
UN Rights Chief Says China Committing Violations in Xinjiang, Tibet
-by Reuters GENEVA, March 4 (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday called on China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, including in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that read more →