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Following the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, and in advance of the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Beijing puts ...
Dorje Tashi’s brother and sister targeted in Lhasa, as they are once again denied any prison visitation rights.
A source from the area confided that “the demolition of Lungkya monastery and nunnery started a month ago but the authorities have still not yet given any information about when it will end and when ...
A communication to the Chinese government by a group of six United Nation human rights experts has been made public, raising concern over the arrest, enforced disappearance and ongoing detention of ...
Tibet Watch has received updates on mass demolitions carried out late last year at the Tibetan Buddhist community of Larung Gar. More than 1,000 monks and nuns are reported to have been expelled from ...
The Bureau of Education of Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture issued a notification in early September this year forbidding Tibetan language classes from primary to high secondary schools in the ...
A Tibetan prisoner named Ludup was released from prison last month with injuries after being made to carry out forced labour during his three-and-a-half-year prison sentence. A source confirmed Tibet ...
Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that on 9 August, 110 Tibetans who attended a horse racing festival were detained in Janglam Village in Nyanrong County (Tib:གཉན་རོང་རྗོང་།) in ...
After the recent detention of more than 50 Tibetans in Dza Wonpo between 21 to 25 August, Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch can confirm that a further 53 Tibetans were arrested between 25 and ...
A university student has been detained in central Tibet. Chinese authorities in Riwoche County arrested Choedon (ཆོས་སྒྲོན།) on 13 February and she has not been seen since. Choedon hails from the ...
Gonmo Kyi, the sister of imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, has shared a new video talking about her efforts to raise her brother’s case with authorities. In the video, released 24 September ...