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Washington DC: US President Donald Trump met with survivors of religious persecution in the White House's Oval Office on Wednesday. Niece of late Tulku Tenzin Rinpoche, Nyima Lhamo was part of the delegation which included 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Nadia Murad. More

Washington DC: The United States government released its annual International Religious Freedom Report, a report that covers repressive government policies that infringe upon religious freedom. More

Dharamshala: Against the backdrop of the World Parliamentary Convention on Tibet which recently concluded in Latvia, the 6th All India Tibet Support Groups Conference was convened here at the Central Tibetan Secretariat this Saturday with the participation of 216 members of Tibet Support Groups representing 21 states across India. More

Washington DC: "Confronting Atrocities In China: The Global Response To The Uyghur Crisis" conference had its opening ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on 6 June. The event was hosted by the Central Asia Program, The World Uyghur Congress, the Uyghur American Association, and the Uyghur Human Rights Project. More

Washington DC: June 4th marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in which the Chinese Communist Party massacred thousands of innocent student protestors. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted a public rally on the afternoon of 4 June on the West Lawn of the U.S. More

Washington DC: Tenzin Dhetan, head of the China Desk of Central Tibetan Administration spoke at commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this Monday. A candlelight vigil and a ceremony of remembrance were held in front of liberty statue near Capitol Hill. More

New York: The China Democracy Party, Beijing Spring, Federation for a democratic China, United for Democratic China and other organizations jointly organized a candlelight vigil on 2 June, 2019 in the Greater New York area to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre where also the Chinese liaison officer Tsultrim Gyatso of the Office of Tibet attended the event and deliv More

Taipei, Taiwan: Representatives from Taiwan Tibetan Welfare Association and Tibetan Youth Congress took part in an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of June 4 Tiananmen Square Crackdown on 2 June 2019 in Taipei city of Taiwan. More

Taiwan: Representative Ngodup Tsering attended the Taiwan International Religious Freedom Forum, which was organised by the Heritage Foundation, China Aid, Presbyterian Church and Taiwan Association for China Human Rights from 30 May to 1 June. The forum was co/hosted by the Freedom House, Center for Religious Liberty, Victims of Communism, and the International Religious Freedom Roundtable. More

Dharamshala: The US ambassador to China urged Beijing to engage in substantive dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives without preconditions to seek a settlement that resolves differences, the US embassy reportedly said last weekend. More

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