Tibetan writer sentenced to 7.5 years after more than a year of secret detention
Chinese authorities have sentenced yet another Tibetan writer to prison for seven years and six months after holding him incommunicado…
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Chinese government destroys evidence of Tibetan woman’s self-immolation
Chinese authorities have destroyed photographic and video evidence of a self-immolation protest staged by a 50-year-old Tibetan woman in Dzoege…
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Peaceful Tibetan solo protester released after serving two years in juvenile prison
Yesterday, on 5 May 2016, Lobsang Tenpa, a solo Tibetan protester was released from a juvenile prison facility located…
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Tibetan protester carrying Dalai Lama’s portrait detained by Chinese traffic police
A Tibetan monk from the local Kirti Monastery who staged a peaceful solo protest against Chinese government policies was detained…
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TCHRD holds a discussion on situation of Tibetan political prisoners in US
On 21 April 2016, the second talk in the TCHRD’s United States Tibet Talk Series was at the International Campaign…
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China must end enforced disappearance of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama
Today is the 27th birthday of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the reincarnate of the previous 10th Panchen Lama, one of the most important…
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Four Tibetan land rights petitioners given suspended sentence
Four Tibetan men have been given suspended jail sentences for petitioning against government confiscation of their land in Ka Bharma…
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China’s ill-advised development policy led to protest by Tibetan graduates
A group of Tibetan graduates staged a peaceful protest against unfair dismissals from jobs that later ended in detention…
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Revoke discriminatory, unjust verdict against Tibetan writer Shokjang
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) calls on the Chinese authorities to revoke the verdict to…
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Tibetan man kills self in detention to avoid custodial torture
A Tibetan man committed suicide after local police detained him in Markham (Ch: Mangkang) County in Chamdo (Ch: Changdu)…
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