More than 70 large and medium-sized hydropower plants have been built and are under construction in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, reported the official Sichuan Daily on 25 September. The spurt in dam building has been triggered by China’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) that calls for large-scale expansion of hydropower projects in the ecologically fragile Tibetan areas in Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai.…

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Gold mining activities with little to no regulatory oversight for decades have caused irreversible environmental damage and poisoning of drinking water sources with cyanide, arsenic, mercury and lead in Tibetan areas in Machu (Ch: Maqu) County and Sangchu (Ch: Xiahe) County in Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. A Chinese central government inspection conducted from 27 to 28…

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Chinese authorities have sentenced a Tibetan monk to three years’ imprisonment on the suspected charge of disclosing state secrets in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) County in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. Lobsang Dorjee, 36, a monk from the local Kirti Monastery, was sentenced on 3 September, following his detention in July last…

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Chinese authorities in Qinghai Province have issued an urgent notice that calls for increased monitoring and management of online chat groups and individual users “at all times and in all places”, according to a podcast news in Tibetan and Chinese released by local Chinese government media earlier this week. The notice bans posting and sharing of “illegal” information that “harms the nation…

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The August 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet includes the following articles: China to intensify ‘struggles against Dalai Clique and evil forces’ in Tibet Autonomous Region “Reincarnation not a matter of individual right but a symbol of Party’s rule over Tibet” Inspection teams to investigate the enforcement of Grassland Law dispatched 40…

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The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) calls on the Chinese authorities to disclose information about three Tibetan monks subjected to arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and unjust sentencing in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) County in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. TCHRD believes that the monks are being persecuted for their religious and political beliefs and their detention violates established human rights norms and principles that China is obligated to respect, protect and fulfill.

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Coinciding with the opening of the new school semester this month, there is a noticeable surge in official media reports extolling the virtues of the ‘Group Form’ education aid program and highlighting stories of benevolent Han Chinese teachers acting more like fathers in making positive changes in the development of education in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). ‘Group Form’ education aid…

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Chinese authorities have again denied lawyers for imprisoned Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk permission to visit their client in Dongchuan Prison, Xining City, Qinghai Province.

Wangchuk had been sentenced to five years in prison in May 2018 for allegedly ‘inciting separatism’ because he criticised Chinese policies and practices on Tibetan language and culture. He did not accept the verdict and decided to appeal.

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