Pressure mounts on Labrang Monastery after expulsion order
Chinese authorities in Gansu Province last year issued an order to expel monks who had come from Tibetan areas outside…
Read MoreLonglife prayers for Dalai Lama removed, ban on phonecalls with outsiders
Chinese officials scraped off a longlife prayer for Dalai Lama carved on a rockface near the besieged Nyatso Zilkar Monastery…
Read MoreMonastery under siege as monks face expulsion while another detained for writing book on immolations
A monk from Tongkyap Monastery has gone ‘missing’ since his arbitrary detention earlier this month by People’s Armed Police in…
Read MoreMonk dies of self-immolation on protest anniversary
A Tibetan monk from the besieged Kirti Monastery died of self-immolation protest on 16 March in Ngaba County in Ngaba…
Read MoreChina calls for bilingual policy, crackdown on immolations
A special team of Chinese officials recently visited four different schools in Tsolho (Ch: Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province,…
Read MoreTheurang: Fighting for universal human rights is an act of seeking truth
Tashi Rabten (pen name: Theurang) is a Tibetan writer and poet who is serving a four-year sentence in Mianyang Prison,…
Read MoreTwo Tibetans, monk and singer, sentenced to prison
A monk and a singer had been sentenced to five years and six years respectively by a Chinese court in…
Read MoreKirti monk detained for second time in two years
Chinese authorities have detained a monk from Kirti Monastery on the eve of the 54th anniversary of Tibetan uprising day…
Read MoreGuest Post: Remembering a noble soul on his second death anniversary
By Jayang Jinpa* The noble soul Sangye Gyatso was born in 1969 in a nomadic village called Lha De Sangkhog…
Read MoreChina launches crackdown on personal cellphones in Lhasa
After setting satellites dishes and broadcast equipment on fire, Chinese authorities in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, have now begun implementing…
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