Human Rights Updates

Human Rights Updates

A mother’s appeal to see her son

Sonam Dekyi is 59 years old, is suffering from tuberculosis and poor health, and has just one wish before she dies: to see her...
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Life sentence reduced to 18 years

Lobsang Tenzin, a former student of Tibet University, is also in Powo Tramo. He was arrested on 19 March 1988 having been implicated as...
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Prisoners in labour camp

A TCHRD source has reported that there are about nine political prisoners in Powo Tramo's labour camp. All are serving long sentences and are...
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“Strike Hard” expulsions of monks

Ngawang Jampa, aged 24 from Lhatse, Palbar Dzong, arrived in Dharamsala on 30 December 1996. He is one of the victims of the ongoing...
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the panchen lama reincarnation

On 14 May 1995, His Holiness The Dalai Lama announced the discovery of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a six year old boy from Lhari in...
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Arrests and demonstrations in 1996

January - Nine Monks of Palgon Chorten arrested in January for burning photos of Gyalstsen Norbu, the Chinese appointed Panchen Lama rival. One monk...
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“Yan Da” – China’s strike hard campaign in Tibet

In April 1996, the government of the PRC launched the nation-wide "Strike Hard" or "Crack Down Severely On Crimes" campaign (Chinese: Yan Da), targeted...
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Cases of torture

In July 1996, Dorjee (Family name; Khangtsiri), a 66 year-old man of Tse-Gorthang, 124 km south-west of Chabcha Dzong in Amdo (ch: Qinghai Province),...
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Deaths in Custody

In 1996, TCHRD recorded three Known cases of deaths in custody in Tibet tortured by prison Officials On 6 May 1996, 19-year-old Sangye Tenphel (lay...
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Disappearances

Four student monks of Nga-rig Kyetse-ling school (English translation: Flourishing Garden of Five Knowledges) at Kumbum Monastery in Amdo region have disappeared since their...
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1996: The Year in Tibet

This Special end-of-year issue of the Human Rights Update reviews the grave human rights violations which continued in occupied Tibet throughout 1996 as political...
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Birth control policy in tibet

Lhundup Ganden, a Sera monk who recently escaped to India, visited the township of Nyagra under Lhasa City  Municipal Bureau in June 1996. Except...
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