TCHRD holds roundtable discussion on improving Tibetan democracy
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) organised a two-day roundtable discussion among 40 Tibetan researchers, educators, legal experts, NGO workers, independent...
No justification for such heinous crime as torture
In March this year, a 30-yr-old Tibetan man called Tashi took his own life soon after his detention because he was unable to bear...
Bilingual Education with Chinese Characteristics: China replacing Tibetan textbooks with Chinese
In keeping with its assimilationist policy, Chinese authorities have recently introduced mathematics textbooks in Chinese language in a number of primary schools to gradually...
China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
Chinese authorities have announced the destruction of thousands of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monks, nuns and lay practitioners at Serthar Larung Gar Buddhist...
Canada, China and Human Rights: Who does Michael Chan speak for?
When Wang Yi, the foreign minister of People’s Republic of China (PRC), was asked a question about human rights and a Canadian citizen who...
Photos of Tibetan youth self-immolators become available after 4 years
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has received photographs of two Tibetan youths who died of self-immolation in 2012. For the...
Lone Tibetan protester holding Dalai Lama’s portrait detained incommunicado
Chinese authorities have detained incommunicado yet another Tibetan monk from the local Kirti Monastery for staging a lone protest against repressive policies in Ngaba (Ch: Aba)...
TCHRD calls on Chinese government to stop mining at sacred mountain
Rampant open-pit mining activities conducted for more than a decade by the Chinese authorities at Tibet’s sacred Gong Ngon Lari Soul Mountain have faced...
Tibetan political prisoner released from prison after 21 years, detained again three years later
Chinese authorities have detained Lodoe Gyatso, a former Tibetan political prisoner who was released from prison three years ago after serving 21 years.
Lodoe Gyatso...
Chinese police arbitrarily detain Tibetan monk to prevent self-immolation protest
Chinese authorities have arbitrarily detained a 23-yr old Tibetan monk because he was suspected of planning to stage a self-immolation protest against the repressive...
