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Underrepresented: Tibetans Kept Out of Most Leadership Positions
-by International Campaign for Tibet Analysis of Tibetan representation in PRC leadership in 2024 It is the season of China’s annual meetings in Beijing of its National People’s Congress (parliament) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (political advisory body). Popularly called the “Two Sessions,” China has also been using these read more →
Freedom House Gives Tibet Global Freedom Score of Zero
After 65 years of Chinese occupation, Tibet’s global freedom score has now dropped all the way to zero, watchdog group Freedom House says in its new Freedom in the World report. “This score leaves no doubt that China’s occupation of Tibet has been a global catastrophe,” International Campaign for Tibet President read more →
China Arrests More than 1,000 Tibetans Protesting Chinese Dam Project
Detainees are told to bring bedding and food, suggesting they will not be released soon, sources say. -by Radio Free Asia Police on Friday arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks from at least two local monasteries, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province after they protested the construction of a dam read more →
Tibetan Monk Arrested for Publishing Books on Tibet from Exiles
By Pelbar for RFA Tibetan. A Tibetan Buddhist monk was arrested by Chinese police in June 2023 on charges of republishing books from the exiled Tibetan community and for contacting people outside the region, Radio Free Asia has learned. The whereabouts of Lobsang Thabkhey, 54, who served as librarian of read more →
Ahead of Tibetan New Year, China Urges Monks to “Expose, Denounce” Dalai Lama
-by Radio Free Asia Bearing gifts ahead of the Tibetan New Year, Chinese authorities in Tibetan-populated parts of Sichuan province visited at least 35 Buddhist monasteries, and urged eminent monks to “deeply expose and denounce” the Dalai Lama and to safeguard the “unity of the motherland.” The officials, led by read more →
Tibetan Government-in-Exile Works to Preserve Tibetan Identity
Last week, during his visit to Estonia, Penpa Tsering, the leader of the exiled Tibetan leadership, met with members of the Tibet Support Group of the Riigikogu. Astrid Kannel, an ERR correspondent, met with a Tibetan political leader to discuss the future and ambitions of his fellow Tibetans. Kannel was read more →
Atheist China Should Have No Say in Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation
-By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya for The Japan Times Since the occupation of Tibet in 1950, the Chinese Communist Party has persistently distorted historical facts to interfere in Tibetan religious matters. This includes the process to select the reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who is now 88 years read more →
No Progress With A-Nya Sengdra’s Appeal
Tibetan community leader and anti-corruption activist remains in prison, despite his lawyer’s efforts. -By Tibet Watch The anti-corruption activist and community leader A-Nya Sengdra remains in prison with little progress with his appeal, his lawyer has revealed. Lin Qilei stated that on 8 January 2024, he visited the Sixth Circuit read more →
Official Who Oversaw Destruction of Tibetan Buddhist Sites Reported Dead
By Pelbar for RFA Tibetan. A Chinese government official of Tibetan ethnicity who approved the destruction of a huge Buddha statue died after falling from the fifth floor of a mall in Chengdu, according to a statement issued by local Chinese authorities and two sources inside Tibet. Wang Dongsheng, 53, read more →
Tibet Not in Focus, Repression Persists: Exiled Former Leader
-By Reuters TAIPEI, (Reuters) – The plight of Tibet has become less discussed internationally but repression continues and China is applying what it did there to other regions, a former head of the Tibetan government-in-exile said on Saturday. China seized control of Tibet in 1950 in what it describes as read more →
UN Must Include Strong Language on Tibet in China Review
-By International Campaign for Tibet As the United Nations prepares to take up China’s report at the upcoming Universal Periodic Review at the end of January, the accelerating deterioration in Tibet demands that UN member states scrutinize China and that the UN adopts strong language on Tibet in its concluding read more →
Authorities Enforce Ban on Tibetan Students Taking Outside Classes
Investigations night and day to find offenders -by Radio Free Asia Going door-to-door, Chinese authorities are stepping up efforts to enforce a ban on Tibetan children from taking private classes and participating in religious activities during the winter break from school, three sources from inside Tibet told Radio Free Asia. read more →
US Company Halts DNA Collection Kit Sales in Tibetan Region
-By International Campaign for Tibet In a victory for Tibet activists, biotechnology firm Thermo Fisher Scientific says it has stopped selling kits reportedly used for mass DNA collection in a region of Chinese-occupied Tibet. “Based on a number of factors we made the decision in mid-2023 to cease sales of read more →
No New Monks Allowed at Buddhist Monastery in Tibet
The move reflects China’s tightening grip on religious activities, sources say. -By Pelbar and Tenzin Pema for RFA Tibetan Chinese authorities have forbidden the admission of new monks of all ages into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Chamdo prefecture in eastern Tibet amid growing restrictions on religious activities in the read more →
Human Rights Defender Detained for Exposing Online Official Practice of Racial Discrimination Against Tibetans
-By TCHRD Tibetan human rights defender Tsering Tso had been subjected to arbitrary detention for the second time in three years for her social media posts calling out Chinese authorities for engaging in human rights abuses against Tibetans in Kyegudo (Ch: Yushu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan read more →