Tibet Autonomous Region

Dharamshala: In a recent notice, the Chinese authorities in “Tibet Autonomous Region” announced criminal prosecutions against individuals who use online communication tools to engage in activities against the Chinese Communist Party. More

Dharamshala: A Chinese court has sentenced a Tibetan nomad from Machin, Golog Prefecture in Tibet earlier this month. More

Dharamshala: The US-based The International Campaign for Tibet came out with a 28-page report “The ‘Evil’ Trial of 10 Sangchu Tibetans” exposing a sham “anti-gang” trial of ten Tibetans from Tibet’s traditional Amdo region in June this year. FreeTibet, a UK-based rights group filed a brief report on the same in July. More

Dharamshala: Under the guise of alleviating poverty in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China introduces new policies coercing thousands of Tibetans in the region into mass labour through a militarised system, said a study authored by Adrian Zenz, an independent researcher specialising in Tibet and East Turkestan (Ch: Xinjiang). More

Geneva: On 25 September 2020, at the ongoing 45th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the issue of coercive “labour trainings” of over half a million Tibetans in Tibet by China was raised by Thinlay Chukki, CTA’s Special Appointee for Human Rights at Tibet Bureau Geneva. Speaking on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples under the Council’s agenda item no. More

Dharamshala: CTA President Dr Lobsang Sangay today refuted Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposed policy directions on Tibet and called it “misguided” and “unrealistic”.  Xi Jinping has laid out four key policy directions on Tibet which include combating ‘separatism’ and Sinicizing Tibetan Buddhism, at the 7th Central Symposium on Tibet Works in Beijing on Saturday, 29 August. More

Dharamshala: Exactly a month after the US Secretary of State announced visa sanctions on the Chinese government and political leaders for restricting journalists, tourists, diplomats or other American officials from accessing autonomous regions in Tibet, US State Department released its second annual report to US Congress on access to Tibet in 2019. More

Dharamshala: "The Chinese government officials who think they can get away with violating Tibetan rights, that they can act with impunity are proved wrong now. The US government is taking actions and all those Chinese officials, hopefully, even their family members will be put under restrictions if they want to visit the US," said President Dr Lobsang Sangay. More

Dharamshala: The Information Secretary of Central Tibetan Administration said China has been sending its so-called “Tibetan delegation” overseas to promote propaganda on Tibet and to deter international criticism of its egregious human rights abuses inside Tibet. "China has been sending delegations abroad to promote its propaganda on Tibet. More

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

Dharamshala: The annual Human Rights Report 2019 records that the human rights situation in Tibet is still no better than yesterday as the Tibetans continue to face severe restriction in their religious freedom, speech, movement, and assembly. More

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

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

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

Dharamshala: A Tibetan man formerly detained and tortured for singing the Tibetan national anthem in April 2016, Pema Wangchen from Karze, passed away last Friday at a hospital in the Chinese city of Chengdu, Sichuan province. According to reports, on 26 April around noon, Pema Wangchen died from prolonged illness sustained through torture suffered while in Chinese police custody three years ago. More

Dharamshala: The rightful 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, Kunzik Gedhun Choekyi Nyima must be released and enthroned at his seat at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Tibet, President Dr Lobsang Sangay said today. In a solemn ceremony at the headquarters of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, hundreds of Tibetans and supporters marked the 30th birth-anniversary of the 11th Panchen Lama in absentia. 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

-Filed by UN, EU and Human Rights Desk, DIIR, CTA In 2018, China has sentenced 25 Tibetans in the central Tibet, the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) under charges of "inciting separatism" and endangering "national security," reported the state mouthpiece Global Times. The TAR high court presented the information in its work report last weekend. More

Whatever one reads into China's recent moves in Tibet, one thing is very clear: Beijing has big plans for Tibet in all fronts. These plans constitute the increasing militarization of the Tibetan Plateau in China's push against India and securing the border, Tibet serving as a location of migrant Chinese settlers and the source of natural resources for rapidly industrializing economy. More

Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province are demolishing restaurants, shops, and guesthouses set up by Tibetans for tourists near scenic Qinghai Lake, resulting in severe financial hardship for those affected, according to a local source. More