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Contravening Chinese regulations, family and lawyer blocked from visiting prominent Tibetan businessman Dorje Tashi.
China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...
Years of advocacy and human rights monitoring paid off at the United Nations today as a record number of countries confronted the Chinese government over its policies in Tibet. The setting was China’s ...
In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...
Demand for an international investigation grows following the death of beloved Tibetan Lama in Vietnam and cremation without family consent. 21 April 2025 – Global Tibet groups voice vehement ...
A communication to the Chinese government by a group of six United Nation human rights experts has been made public, raising concern over the arrest, enforced disappearance and ongoing detention of ...
The persecution of Tibetan Buddhists and the threats to Tibet’s future were discussed on Thursday in a debate by MPs at Westminster Hall. During the 90-minute discussion, MPs raised a range of ...
Family members of the renowned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi have been cautioned by police against protesting his innocence after calling for his release last week. They are nevertheless awaiting a ...
On 8 July, a week after the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) centenary celebration, Chinese authorities in Golog, eastern Tibet, ordered the closure of Sengdruk Taktse middle school in Darlak County.
Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan political prisoner, Tsultrim Gyatso, was handed a six-month reduction of his prison sentence in April last year. The ruling by the ...
We, the undersigned Tibet organisations, express our profound concern regarding the sudden death of 56-year old Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, the Abbot of Lung Ngon Monastery in Gade County, Golog, Amdo ...
Sources in eastern Tibet have told Tibet Watch of around 30 arrests connected to the birthday celebrations of the 14th Dalai Lama. Details of the majority of those arrested are yet to be confirmed but ...