situation inside Tibet

Dharamshala: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) called out China as one of the world’s worst persecutors of religious faiths in its 2019 annual report released Monday. More

-Filed by UN, EU and Human Rights Desk, DIIR Dharamshala: News emerges from Tibet that Chinese authorities have sentenced Lodoe Gyatso, a former Tibetan political prisoner, to 18 years in prison while his wife has been given a two-year prison term. More

-By Tibet Bureau, Geneva Switzerland, 17 March 2019: Tibetan community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein hosted a public reception in honour of Dhondup Wangchen, a prominent political prisoner, who is currently in Switzerland for human rights advocacy meetings, today. More

-Filed by Tibet Bureau, Geneva Geneva: At the ongoing 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council, several member states and International Human Rights organisation expressed concerns over unabated deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet, earlier this week. 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 & 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

  Paris: The Office of Tibet, Paris led by Representative Tashi Phuntsok met with French Senator Andre Gattolin in the Senate and French National Assembly Deputy Elizabeth Toutut in the National Assembly on July 24 and 25 respectively. More

Tibet TV of Department of Information and International Relations interviewed President Dr Lobsang Sangay, Central Tibetan Administration on the occasion of the second anniversary of the 15th Kashag. Following is the English transcript of Tibet TV's interview with CTA President. More

Chinese authorities have ordered all Tibetan pilgrims who have travelled to Bodh Gaya to attend the ongoing teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India, and Nepal to return immediately. In a public order issued earlier this month, local government of Sichuan province instructed Tibetans living in the region to return by certain deadlines, failing which "they would face consequences". More