“The basis of the Chinese communist party or the Chinese government’s occupation of Tibet has been illegal and unlawful. Tibetans have since 1959 been peacefully protesting against the Chinese Communist Party for the illegal occupation and apart from that the kind of violent suppressions that we are seeing them conducting against peaceful protesters inside Tibet and because of the Chinese…
“I protest because it’s not only my right, it’s my duty to speak out in every way that I can when Tibetans inside Tibet do not enjoy even basic human rights.” Our dissenting hero of this week, Mrs Tashi Lhamo, is a veteran protester and is currently the vice president of National Tibetan Freedom Movement, Delhi. She is also working…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is deeply concerned over the health condition of Tsegon Gyal, a prominent Tibetan political prisoner who was released last December after completing a three-year prison term at Dongchuan prison (西宁市东川监狱) in Xining, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo.
Our dissenting hero of this week, Tenzin Migmar, believes it is his responsibility as a Tibetan being born in a free country to exercise his right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression because Tibetans inside Tibet do not enjoy these rights. As a long time member of the Dharamshala Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), Migmar has participated in numerous…
China’s widespread and intrusive practices of mass surveillance and censorship have served as a perfect foil to continue perpetrating human rights violations with impunity in Tibet. Since 2008 when Tibetans held widespread protests calling for freedom and return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Chinese authorities have tightened control to ensure that such an event will never happen again. For years now, the Chinese Communist Party (‘Party’) authorities have enforced a model of social control that has proved highly successful in silencing Tibet and encouraging the rapid forced assimilation of Tibetans.
“No matter how happy we are here, we don’t have a place to call our own. We live on foreign land. It is one of the main reasons why we protest. If we protest together, our wish will be fulfilled and that’s why we need to protest. “I even tell my children that I will keep on protesting until Tibet…
“We protest for change. We protest to expose the brutality of the government. We protest to let the world know there are still many like us who are willing to sacrifice for universal value. We protest because we have hope for a better society. We protest most importantly because through protest we define our own dignity and identity.” Our dissenting…
Our dissenting hero of this week, Tenpa Dhargyal, is a former political prisoner and a long time human rights activist. Tenpa spent more than five years in Chinese prison before he escaped into exile in India. His time in prison made him even more resilient and determined to work for the Tibetan cause. Tenpa is now settled in Brisbane, Australia…
“Fighting for freedom and justice is my duty as a human being. Supporting Tibetans, Hong Kongers, Uighurs, Mongols, Macanese, and Taiwanese or anyone who is ruled and threatened by the Chinese communist dictatorship is my duty as a human being.” Our dissenting hero of this week, Rose Tang, is a Chinese born writer, artist and activist based in Brooklyn, US.…
Our #dissentinghero of the week, Dorjee Tashi, popularly known as Dorjee Rangzen is a human rights activist. He has participated in a number of peaceful protests. In 2013, he was imprisoned for peacefully exercising his right to publicly express his opinion. “I was sent to Tihar jail in Delhi for staging a protest against the Chinese leader’s visit to India.…
“I grew up largely in communities where not many people knew about Tibet or the situation in Tibet. I was only 13 years old when I walked into school one day and in our hallway, they had pasted up a newspaper article which was a front-page cover of the San Francisco golden gate banner hanging which read ‘one world, one…