Human Rights Updates

Human Rights Updates

China’s birth control policy in Tibet

Between September and October of 1996, 308 Tibetan women in the sub-district of Takar in Chushur district under Lhasa City were sterilised over a...
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Spiritual head imprisoned for mining protests

Nazod Trulku, the spiritual head of Nazod monastery and its 200 monks located in the south of Serta County, was sentenced in August 1996...
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Procuratorate flees Tibet to learn the truth

Lhakpa Tsering, 24 years old, from Toelung Dechen Dzong, near Lhasa, was one of the staff at the Dzong (county) Procuracy Office (the Chinese...
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Profile: Struggle in Drapchi

Ngawang Pekar was halfway through his eight year sentence in Drapchi Prison when his sentence was extended by six years. Already being punished for...
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China’s gold mining in Tibet

China's mining practices in Tibet reveal a two-way policy: to transfer massive population numbers into Tibet so as to lessen the burden of its...
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Prisoner miscarries

A recent report describing the inhumane treatment of prisoners in Chinese prisons in Tibet has been received. The report recounts the case of a...
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Arrests in Rebkong

In 1995 Lobsang Lungtok, a monk, was arrested for independence activities. After 18 months imprisonment he was expelled from his monastery in April this...
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14 years for posters and songs

Tenzin Thupten from Michungri nunnery was about to complete her prison term when  she participated in recording songs conveying messages of freedom and words...
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Painter’s suicide in prison

Kalsang Dawa, a 29 year old painter from Phenpo, central Tibet, was reported to have died mysteriously in October 1995 while serving his prison...
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hermits targeted for new taxes

According to a recent arrival from Damtoe township in Taktse county under Lhasa City, the Chinese have extended their religious repression to include hermits...
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Tibet in ruins

China's on-going campaign to destroy all physical signs of Tibet's ancient civilisation is leaving piles of rubble across the land. China's aim to wipe...
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nunnery expansion at halt

I am 29 year old and come from Nyen village in Seshen township in Toeling Dechen Dzong under Lhasa City. I come from a...
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