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Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association HRC 35th Session (31 May 2017) Symbol No. A/HRC/35/28/Add.3 Concerning the communication sent on 7 November 2016, regarding severe restrictions of religious freedom in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture; the alleged mass expulsion of religious practitioners from Larung Gar and Yachen Gar, demolitions of monastic homes in Larung…

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Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression HRC 20th Session (4 June 2012) Symbol No. A/HRC/20/17 The Special Rapporteur voiced grave concern over reports of restrictions of fundamental rights of monks, who have been calling for religious freedom in and around the area of the Tibetan Buddhist Kirsti monastery in Sichuan…

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Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions HRC 14th Session (18 June 2010) Symbol No. A/HRC/14/24/Add.1 S Death of Phuntsok Rabgay Phuntsok Rabgay was pasting leaflets containing allegations that monks had been tortured and imprisoned by the authorities and an appeal to the local population to forego crop cultivation and harvest as a gesture of mourning and disobedience. He…

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Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Communications, cases examined, observations and other activities conducted by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, 116th Session (10-14 Sept 2018) Symbol No. A/HRC/WGEID/116/1 Khenrap and Dhongye Allegedly forcibly disappeared between 9 and 13 April 2018 by local authorities in Shakchu, Biru County, Naqu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. Their place of detention…

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Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Relevant Adopted Opinion 80th session (20-20 Nov 2017): Opinion No. 69/201 Tashi Wangchuk Mr. Wangchuk is a 31-year-old Tibetan shopkeeper from Jyekundo County in Kham, Eastern Tibet (Yushu, Qinghai Province). Mr. Wangchuk publicly advocated for greater Tibetan language education in local schools in Tibetan populated areas.* *Ages mentioned were at the time of the adopted…

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Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was disappeared at the age of six by Chinese government agents

Gyaincain Norbu (Gyaltsen Norbu), the 11th Panchen Lama appointed by Chinese authorities to nullify the Dalai Lama’s selection has been appointed president of the regional branch of Buddhist Association of China (BAC) in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

On 22 June this year, Wu Yingjie, the Chinese Communist Party Secretary of TAR met with the newly elected members of the BAC’s TAR branch, a party controlled supervisory organ on Buddhism in People’s Republic of China.

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Dugkar arrested by police [Photo: Hongyuan county government]
Chinese authorities have sentenced 21 Tibetans to prison in connection with the nationwide campaign to eliminate criminal activities related to ‘black and evil forces’ in Shordha town in Nangchen (Ch:Nangqin) County, Kyegudo (Ch: Yushu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Kham. Two of the sentenced are former heads of their respective villages.

In May this year, the Nangchen County People’s Court sentenced the 21 Tibetans in two groups. The first group of 11 Tibetans from Do Thrang village in Shordha town were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years and monetary fines from 10000 to 50000 yuan.

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Tibetan nomads protest mining at sacred Gong Ngon Lari mountain in in Amchok, Tibet, 2016.

Last month, Chinese authorities announced the acceleration of the ‘pairing assistance’ program as part its overall goal to end poverty in Ba (Ch: Tongde) County (also called Ba Dzong in common Tibetan parlance) in Tsolho (Ch: Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. The ‘pairing assistance’ program is a nation-wide initiative of dispatching party members and local cadres to gather information on rural residents and adopt preventative measures to combat sensitive political issues from gaining traction among the masses.

The program is, for all practical purposes, a means to monitor and control the thoughts and activities of local Tibetans in the name of poverty alleviation. It requires party members and cadres to stay at the homes of local Tibetan nomads and farmers for weeks conducting political education sessions and gathering sensitive information. It has existed since 2012 alongside a host of other so-called ecological and poverty alleviation programs that are designed to facilitate mass surveillance and thought control.

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The May 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet includes the following articles: China increases party presence in harvesting areas in Chamdo ‘Four Loves’ propaganda campaign incorporated into state education institutions Party-building ‘grassroots fortresses’ in new poverty alleviation resettlement villages Special four-month rectification campaign against mobile educational apps China continues with flawed policy of…

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The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has received a photo of Dorjee who died in 2012 after setting his body on fire to protest repressive policies of the Chinese government in Tibet.

The photo could not be shared earlier due to pervasive surveillance and criminalisation of self-immolation protests in Tibet. A number of Tibetans had been imprisoned for sharing news and images about self-immolation on the charges of ‘leaking state secrets’ or ‘maintaining illegal contacts with outsiders’.

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