In July this year seven monks from Serwa monastery in Chamdo region were arrested by the Communist China’s Public Security Bureau. This is the second known case of arrest of Serwa monks. Earlier…
Since the March 1959 Tibetan National Uprising, for almost 28 years the issue of Tibet remained a yet another isolated story closed to the International fora. Until, on 27 September 1988 the most…
The latest Policy of Chinese repression comes in the most subtle manner of taxation. The Tibetans, irrespective of their economic position are all subjected to various form of taxation some of which are…
A report released by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) describes widespread and systematic violations by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) of Tibetan children’s rights to education. “The Next…
Sixty-three-year-old Gonpo from Tsongyon region under Bayan county was arrested on December 25, 1996, by the Public Security Bureau and his detention was officially announced in January 1997. However, the term of his…
In 1995 a young monk named Sonam Dhondup was arrested after Chinese officials found a booklet on Tibet and a Tibetan national flag in his room. His plans to distribute the booklets were…
In Drayab Magon Monastery, monks have protested without success against recent decisions by Chinese officials to reduce by hundreds the number of monks allowed. Five monks who refused to accept “Re-education” principles requiring…
Tsewang, a 63 year old man from Shol Lhasa, has failed in his appeal to the “TAR” People’s High Court after being sentenced by the Lhasa City’s Intermediate People’s Court to five years…
Chadrel Rinpoche, the abbot of Tashilhunpo Monastery and head of China’s Search Committee for the Reincarnation of the 11th Panchen Lama, has been on hunger strike since July this year, locked in a…
Restrictions were imposed by the Lhasa Public Security Bureau from April of this year to ensure stability and security during the July 1 Hong Kong take-over and to prevent riots and pro-independence movements…
“I was working in an Amdo Restaurant in Dram, the Tibetan town at the border of Nepal. A few years ago there used to be lots of Tibetan businessman who owned shops and…