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.

Spread among the hills in Serta County in Kardze, eastern Tibet, Larung Gar Buddhist Institute is the largest and one of the most significant sites in Tibetan Buddhism. It was established in 1980 and ...

For the last six years in a row, US think-tank Freedom House has ranked Tibet among the worst places in the world for civil rights and political freedom. Under the Chinese Communist Party, nobody is ...

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 ...

For centuries, Dalai Lamas have served as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetan people, even acting as the political leaders of Tibet in the past. Despite still maintaining the role ...

The Rush for Lithium Green transport in one place should not come at the cost of environmental and social damage in another. For the people of Tibet, this is a real threat with the extraction of ...

Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan singer Palden was released in secret last month before the end of his three-year prison sentence. Palden was released on 25 September but still remains under the ...

Thubten Yeshi, a Tibetan farmer and former political prisoner, passed away on 28 September in Lhasa at the age of 74. He spent 15 years, a quarter of his life, behind bars for staging a protest with ...

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 ...

Since March 2009, more than 150 people are known to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet to protest against the repressive Chinese occupation. Self-immolation protests peaked in 2012 when more ...