Ngaba County
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Taiwan: Led by the Office of Tibet, Taiwan, members of Tibetan community in Taiwan and Tibetan NGOs observed a prayer service to mourn the demise of latest self-immolator Yonten who set himself on fire in protest against Chinese rule of Tibet and its hardline policies against the Tibetans on 26 November. This is the first known self-immolation by a Tibetan this year. More
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Dharamshala: Over the years, the Chinese government has implemented a total crackdown on Tibetan self-immolation protests, labelling the protests as an “act of terrorism” and criminalizing family members of the self-immolators who were reprimanded with arrests and heavy sentences. More
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Dharamshala: A young Tibetan nomad from the nearby nomadic township of Meruma in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) county in Tibet’s traditional province of Amdo died on Tuesday after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule of Tibet and its hardline policies against the Tibetans. Yonten, aged around 24, set himself ablaze in the center of town nearby Meruma at around 4 pm local time on 26 November 2019. More
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Dharamshala: A Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba county who was arrested last month from his monastery has not been heard of since. His location, as well as the charges for his arrest, are unknown. Sonam Palden, 22, was taken away from his room at Kirti Monastery on September 19, according to Kanyag Tsering from the Dharamshala-branch of Kirti Monastery. More
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Dharamshala: A Tibetan monk from Ngaba county's Kirti Monastery who was arrested more than a year ago was sentenced to 3 years in prison by Chinese authorities last week as per our sources. More
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-Filed by UN, EU & Human Rights Desk, DIIR Three monks from Tibet's Amdo Ngaba region, incorporated into the Chinese province of Sichuan, have disappeared after they were arrested by Chinese authorities in separate incidents. More
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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
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-Filed by UN, EU & Human Rights Desk, DIIR and contributed by Losang Yeshi and Kanyag Tsering from Kirti Monastery Dharamshala: Dopo, a Tibetan man barely of 23 years old, set himself on fire on 4 November, this year in Ngaba County of Tibet’s Amdo region. More
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DHARAMSHALA: A popular Tibetan singer named Amchok Phuljung, imprisoned for singing songs of praise for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, was released from Sichuan’s Mianyang Prison on 2 February, after serving his four-year sentence. According to TCHRD reports, this is the first information on Amchok Phuljung after his arbitrary detention on 3 August 2012 in Barkham County. More
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DHARAMSHALA: According to a report from Tibet received on 6 December 2016, the Intermediate Peoples’ Court in Barkham, Ngaba prefecture has sentenced 10 Tibetans, both monks and laypeople, to varying terms of five to 14 years in prison for taking part in the 80th birthday celebration of the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Ngaba County (incorporated in China's Sichuan Pro More