Author page: staff

The 2020 Annual Report on the human rights situation in Tibet, released online today in three languages: Tibetan, Chinese and English, presents a disturbing picture of deprivation and abuses, marked by persistent and grave human rights violations, including the absence of independent space for free speech owing to the widespread and systematic crackdown on any sign of peaceful dissent.Events documented…

Continue Reading

final-post

A group of 23 Tibetan college students studying law, politics, journalism and sociology at different universities in India took part in a three-day online workshop on ‘International Human Rights Principles and Enforcement Mechanisms’ from 8 to 10 April. Eighty percent of the workshop participants were female. Participants learned about the UN human rights system and its protection mechanisms and ways…

Continue Reading

sherab-gyatso

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly protests the arbitrary detention of Gō Sherab Gyatso, an outstanding Tibetan scholar known for his formidable activism and outspoken views. Chinese authorities must provide credible evidence of crimes or release Gyatso immediately from arbitrary detention. Gyatso, a resident of Ngaba (Ch: Aba) County in Nagba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture had been…

Continue Reading

Tashi Gyal at the trial [Photo: Chinese Human Rights Defenders]

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is deeply distressed to learn about the sentencing of a 50 yr-old Tibetan man to one-year prison term for posting on his personal WeChat account contents deemed illegal by Chinese authorities in Machen (Ch: Maqin) County, Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. Mr…

Continue Reading

hainan-courtroom-jampa.jpeg

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the arbitrary detention of two Tibetan students for promoting a self-designed flag and emblem for a local football team in Tsolho (Ch: Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. Both had their mobile phones confiscated. An overseas Chinese NGO reported on 23 February that…

Continue Reading

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) released yesterday a major report, Distorted Development: Chinese Discourse on the Right to Development and its Implementation in Tibet, that highlights how Tibet offers important lessons on the limitations of the Chinese model of development. Over many decades, China has imposed on Tibet the model of development it now seeks to…

Continue Reading

The well-known Tibetan language rights advocate Tashi Wangchuk, who was sentenced to five years in prison for “inciting separatism”, was released yesterday after completing his sentence. However, he remains inaccessible to his lawyers even as it is reported that he is staying at his sister’s home in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Kham. Mr…

Continue Reading

Chinese authorities have declared “unconstitutional” local regulations that require the use and development of the spoken and written language of “ethnic minorities”, further cementing the Chinese party-state’s aggressive attempts to assimilate minority nationalities into a single Chinese national identity. The National People’s Congress (NPC), which is subservient to the Chinese Communist Party, made this pronouncement in a work report submitted…

Continue Reading

Chinese internet police in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have yet again announced criminal prosecutions against individuals who use online communication tools to “split the country” and “undermine national unity”, in a notice dated 24 November 2020, which was publicly made available on 24 December this year. Listing a range of illegal online activities such as using virtual private network…

Continue Reading

December 17, 2020 The Honorable Michael R. Pompeo  Secretary of State  U.S. Department of State  2201 C Street NW  Washington, DC 20520  Dear Mr. Secretary: We would like to thank the government of the United States of America for enforcing the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act (2018) and announcing targeted sanctions on some of the Chinese officials responsible for denying…

Continue Reading

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) calls on the international community to take affirmative actions to protect, promote and fulfill human rights for all. As we observe the anniversary of the adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the UN, thousands of Tibetan political prisoners are languishing…

Continue Reading

to top