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Dorje Tashi’s brother and sister targeted in Lhasa, as they are once again denied any prison visitation rights.
Following the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, and in advance of the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Beijing puts ...
Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that on 9 August, 110 Tibetans who attended a horse racing festival were detained in Janglam Village in Nyanrong County (Tib:གཉན་རོང་རྗོང་།) in ...
A communication to the Chinese government by a group of six United Nation human rights experts has been made public, raising concern over the arrest, enforced disappearance and ongoing detention of ...
Tibet Watch has received updates on mass demolitions carried out late last year at the Tibetan Buddhist community of Larung Gar. More than 1,000 monks and nuns are reported to have been expelled from ...
After the recent detention of more than 50 Tibetans in Dza Wonpo between 21 to 25 August, Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch can confirm that a further 53 Tibetans were arrested between 25 and ...
Thubten Yeshi, a Tibetan farmer and former political prisoner, passed away on 28 September in Lhasa at the age of 74. He spent 15 years, a quarter of his life, behind bars for staging a protest with ...
Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan singer Palden was released in secret last month before the end of his three-year prison sentence. Palden was released on 25 September but still remains under the ...
A Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, has been arrested after carrying out a solo protest. The monk, named Pema, carried out his protest on 26 March. According to a source known ...
Gonmo Kyi, the sister of imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, has shared a new video talking about her efforts to raise her brother’s case with authorities. In the video, released 24 September ...
Tsering Tso, 39, was arbitrarily detained on 25 December last year under the charges of ”picking quarrels and provoking troubles” following three video clips she posted on social media, calling the ...