“No matter how happy we are here, we don’t have a place to call our own. We live on foreign land. It is one of the main reasons why we protest. If we…
“We protest for change. We protest to expose the brutality of the government. We protest to let the world know there are still many like us who are willing to sacrifice for universal…
Our dissenting hero of this week, Tenpa Dhargyal, is a former political prisoner and a long time human rights activist. Tenpa spent more than five years in Chinese prison before he escaped into…
“Fighting for freedom and justice is my duty as a human being. Supporting Tibetans, Hong Kongers, Uighurs, Mongols, Macanese, and Taiwanese or anyone who is ruled and threatened by the Chinese communist dictatorship…
Our #dissentinghero of the week, Dorjee Tashi, popularly known as Dorjee Rangzen is a human rights activist. He has participated in a number of peaceful protests. In 2013, he was imprisoned for peacefully…
“I grew up largely in communities where not many people knew about Tibet or the situation in Tibet. I was only 13 years old when I walked into school one day and in…
Our dissenting hero for this week, Tenzin Khando, believes that it should be the rights of every individual of any country to be able to challenge, to be able to question and to…
“The first time I actually noticed being kind of restrained for being a Tibetan in Nepal was when I wore that Free Tibet t-shirt or a jacket that had a Tibetan national flag…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been informed by reliable sources that two Tibetans had been sentenced early last month on the charges of ‘inciting state subversion’ and ‘sharing…
“The right to protest is a fundamental human right. The reason we protest is to protect human rights. We protest because we are discontented.” Our #dissentinghero of the week, Sonam Wangdue, is a…
The government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) claimed in a September 2019 white paper that it had “continuously strengthened the rule of law for human rights” by “uphold[ing] law-based governance, law-based…