Human Rights Updates

Human Rights Updates

Profile: New longest imprisoned female political prisoner

Ngawang Sangdrol, a nineteen-year-old nun, has had her sentence extended by nine years. With a total of 18 years behind bars, she will be...
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Tibetan Artist Tortured

This week the Tibet Information Network (TIN) reported a Tibetan artist who specialised in painting portraits of the Dalai Lama had been found in...
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Religious repression continues: Monk expelled from “splittist” monastery

The following is taken from an account provided to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy on 26 November by Tsultrim Gyaltsen who...
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Tibetan dissident under house arrest

Yulo Dawa Tsering, a 58-year-old abbot at Ganden Monastery and former teacher of Philosophy at the University of Tibet, was the first Tibetan to...
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The Dalai Lama condemns cultural genocide in Tibet

During an interview with Le Monde daily newspaper in his recent visit to France, His Holiness the Dalai Lama condemned China's cultural genocide in...
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Profile: Tibet’s longest imprisoned political prisoners

Tibetans suspected of opposing policies of the PRC have frequently been detained as political prisoners for extraordinarily lengthy periods. Many remain in detention today,...
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Discrimination in school

The following information was provided by Jamyang Dargyal who had studied in this school for three years. Bayan County Nationality School in Amdo (Chinese: Qinghai)...
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The words of Ngawang Choephel

Last month the People's Republic of China (PRC) officially acknowledged the detention of Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musician and scholar arrested by Chinese authorities...
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hunger strike in drapchi prison

According to new arrivals from Tibet, on 19 April 1996 female political prisoners in Drapchi Priaon went on a hunger strike as a protest...
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discrimination in language

A recent update by the Tibet Information Network reports further actions taken by the authorities of the PRC to discriminate against the use of...
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According to a TCHRD source of  Tibet, during late 1995 and  early 1996 the Health Department of “TAR” conducted an inspection of all private...
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musician sentenced to 18 years

After  15 months of detention without charge, Ngawang Choephel, a 30 year old Tibetan musician and scholar, has been sentenced to 18 years prison...
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