Enforcing Loyalty: Annual Report 2000 (TCHRD)
The latest Annual Report by Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been released today. Enforcing Loyalty is a comprehensive documentation of the deteriorating...
Impoverishing Tibetans: China’s Flawed Economic Policy in Tibet
The recurrent theme, which appears in the official Chinese discourse on Tibet, is that of development and growth. Very often the Chinese government has...
29 Tibetan tour guides dismissed
Some 29 Tibetan tour guides from Shigatse Prefecture Tourist Travel Agency in Lhasa were reportedly dismissed from their jobs on 1 July 2000 following a major...
Expulsion of Monks in a Bon Monastery
Fifteen monks, including 12 juveniles and three elderly monks above the age of 65, were expelled from Yungtrung Peri Monastery following a visit of...
TCHRD releases Annual Report 2000: Tightening the Control
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) today released its annual report entitled "Tibet: Tightening of Control" on the human rights situation...
Tales of Terror: Torture in Tibet
Torture against Tibetan political prisoners has been used as a method of repression since the Chinese occupied Tibet in the 1950s. Despite China's claim...
Drepung monk Ngawang Samphel re-arrested
A Tibetan monk from Drepung monastery in Lhasa, Ngawang Samphel (33), was arrested in early April 1999 for suspicion of political acts. At present...
TCHRD doubts China’s sincerity in signing ICCPR
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) welcomes China's signing of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on October...
Over 3,993 monks and nuns expelled: religious repression continues in Tibet
In its recently released report entitled “Closing the Doors: Religious Repression in Tibet”, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reported the...
Two prisoners shot dead in Drapchi Prison
Two prisoners in Tibet’s Drapchi Prison died instantly on May 4, 1998, when prison officials opened fire on unarmed prisoners staging a protest in...
