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Dharamshala: Three Tibetans who had self-immolated in 2012 protesting against Chinese rule and policies in Tibet have now been identified with their photographs. Although details of the three self-immolators were received and recorded in the same year, their photographs became available only years later. All three died on site after their immolation protests. More

The CCP rewrites history in order to justify its repression of Tibetan language and culture. In March 2019, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising, the Chinese government released the so-called white paper, a self-congratulatory document titled “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years on. More

Dharamshala: CTA President Dr. Lobsang Sangay's visit to Lithuania once again triggered criticism from the Chinese Embassy in Lithuania. In a press release issued this afternoon, the embassy of China in Lithuania strongly opposed and openly condemned the press conference organized by Andrius Navickas in the Seimas this morning where CTA President Dr. More

Authorities in northwestern China’s Gansu province have broadened their investigation into the case of a Tibetan university student unhappy with poor government job opportunities for Tibetans, now questioning his classmates and close acquaintances, Tibetan sources say. More

Dharamshala: A Chinese court has sentenced nine Tibetans for creating an informal organization urging authorities to return community land taken by authorities in Rebgong County, Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the traditional province of Amdo. They were sentenced around mid-April for three to seven years. More

-Filed by Benedict Rogers, UCA News. Read the original article here. China is using educational institutes in 154 countries to spread its influence and threaten academic freedom China is waging a global propaganda war in an attempt to silence overseas critics at a time when it has unleashed the most repressive crackdown on internal dissent since the Tiananmen Square massacre 30 years ago. More

-Filed by Office of Tibet, Brussels European Parliament passed a resolution on 18 April 2019 on China, notably the situation of religious and ethnic minorities. The resolution was adopted by 505 votes in favor, 18 against, with 47 abstentions. This is the last resolution of the Plenary of this Parliament. The next Parliament will be elected on May 26. More

  Filed by UN, EU and Human Rights Desk, DIIR. Lekshey Thupten, a former Tibetan political prisoner has passed away recently according to Tibetan news media sources. He was around 50 years old at the time of his death. Lekshey Thupten was a monk at Nalanda Monastery in Phenpo, Lhundrup County in Lhasa. More

Dharamshala: Debunking China’s latest claims over the reincarnation of Tibet’s foremost spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the United States Congress affirmed upon the sole, legitimate and indisputable authority of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to determine his succession and said the US would only follow the instructions laid out by the Dalai Lama with regard to his reincarnation. More

-By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen, Environment Research Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute China's latest white paper on Tibet, once again highlights Beijing's absolute lack of understanding of Tibet's History and its unwillingness to read beyond government documents. More

-Filed by Office of Tibet, Brussels The 37th round of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue was held in Brussels on 1-2 April. The Dialogue was opened by the EU Special Representative on Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore, who stressed the importance of the universality, indivisibility, and interdependence of human rights. More

-Filed by Tibet Bureau Geneva Geneva: Tibetan community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein called upon China to end human rights violations in Tibet in a demonstration staged in front of the UN building this Friday. Protestors urged UN Member States to call China to end its 60 years of systematic human rights violations in Tibet. More

by T.G. Arya* The Chinese communist mouthpiece, the Global Times, recently carried an article, "Western media report on Tibet full of bias" by Xu Hailin. But the irony of the article is that, while it criticized western media of ignorance and misleading, the first paragraph of the article itself reflected gross ignorance and intention to mislead on the part of the author. More

Dharamshala: A five-member Chinese delegation representing the Sino Tibet Study Group, Federation for Democratic China and Citizen Power Initiatives for China addressed the officials of Central Tibetan Administration here at T-building Tuesday morning. More

-Filed by Tibet Bureau Geneva PRAGUE: Yesterday, the mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib officially welcomed and presented a symbolic key to city gates to Dr. Lobsang Sangay, President of the Central Tibetan Administration. The key serves as a “symbol of trust and friendship. More

By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya* The Global Times, a mouthpiece of the Chinese government, has recently termed Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet, as the safest city through innovative social governance. It quoted Tibet Daily as saying that the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on the public services in Chinese cities has shown Lhasa as the safest city among thirty-eight major cities in China. More

By Kunchok Dolma Yaklha, Special Appointee for Human Rights China has been heavily promoting its “human rights with Chinese characteristics” agenda, which places development over human rights, on the international stage. The efforts continued at the recently concluded 22nd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) Advisory Committee in Geneva. More

-Filed by UN, EU and Human Rights Desk, DIIR, CTA Foreign travelers are barred from visiting Central Tibet for two months as China has closed the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to the world. This closure comes just ahead of the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising Day and the 2008 mass protests. More

The month of February brought the entire Tibetan world on social media, basking in the victory of a young Tibetan woman who rose to become the President of the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Student's Union. More

Dharamshala: The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China surveyed its 204 member-journalists over the extent of foreign media freedom in China, the results of which “painted the darkest picture of reporting conditions inside China in recent memory”. More