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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that three Tibetans were arrested for sharing photos of an official event organised by the government of Yushul Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in ...
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 ...
In its financial results for the first half of 2022, Hikvision, the Chinese state-owned surveillance company, reported a 11% decrease in net profits compared to the previous year. Hikvision is the ...
Free Tibet understands that just two hours after sharing an image celebrating the tradition of White Wednesday on a WeChat group, Tibetan nomad Passang (པ་སངས།), aged 40, was detained on 4 March 2022 ...
On 12 January 2022, Tashi Wangchuk approached government offices in Yushu City in Qinghai Province to call for the preservation of the Tibetan language. This led to him being summoned for an ...