On 21 April 2016, the second talk in the TCHRD’s United States Tibet Talk Series was at the International Campaign for Tibet’s offices in Washington D.C. The first talk in the series was hosted with the Nanda Center for International Law at the University of Denver on 17 February. The most recent conference, “Tibetan Political Prisoners: Rights and Responses” was a panel discussion with ICT’s Andrea Worden and Sophie Richardson from Human Rights Watch and moderated by TCHRD’s John Gaudette.
Chinese authorities in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) are implementing the so-called Ecological Relocation Plan (2018-2025) for extremely high altitude areas of more than 4,800 meters in Nagchu (Ch: Naqu), Ngari (Ch: Ali), and Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) cities.
The March 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: China’s nomad relocation plan displaces more than 130000 Tibetans in TAR Chinese cadres and migrants resume work at Tibet…
The March 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: Chinese relocation plan will displace more than 130000 Tibetan nomads in TAR Chinese cadres and migrants resume…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) demands the immediate release of Dorje Tashi, a Tibetan private entrepreneur currently serving life imprisonment and held in detention since 10 July 2008 in Chushur Prison near Lhasa city, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang.
The Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court had sentenced Dorje Tashi to life imprisonment on 26 June 2010 for allegedly committing “loan fraud”. A decade later, his case is being appealed for the second time on the ground that the verdict itself was wrong and unfair.
Chinese authorities have announced the stationing of more than 20,000 cadres in 5,464 villages as part of the controversial ‘Solidify the Foundation, Benefit the Masses’ (Ch: qianji huimin) campaign in TAR.
The January 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: New regulation on ‘ethnic unity’ raises concerns of accelerated assimilation Grassroots surveillance program extended for ninth year in…
The January 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: New regulation on ‘national unity’ adopted in TAR raises concerns of accelerated assimilation Grassroots surveillance program extended for…
The December 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: China rewards 49 monasteries and 4,130 monks and nuns upholding its religious policy TAR Party leaders emphasize opposing separatism on…
A Tibetan man was detained in a ‘re-education’ facility for over a month after he was caught conversing on phone with his younger brother about the importance of teaching Tibetan to their children in Dingri (Ch: Tingri) County, Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) City, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the illegal sentencing of Mr A-nya Sengdra, a Tibetan nomad and anti-graft campaigner, to seven years of imprisonment and calls for his…