Human Rights Updates

Human Rights Updates

More work team imprisonments

Dorji Rapten is a 20-year-old monk. He reports since Chinese work-team entered his monastery, one monk has disappeared believed executed or imprisoned - and...

Memories of prison labour sends chills

"The worst part of my two years in prison were the times when I had to go out for labour work during summer. While...

Monk suffers in six different prisons

The nightmare began for twenty year-old monk Yeshi Samien when work teams entered his monastery and ordered him to renounce everything he believed in....

Airport Expansion in Lhoka

About four years ago, an airport was built in Kyishong sub-district in Lhoka County. Kyishong is one of the best known places in Tibet...

More monasteries targeted

Thupten Soepa is from Rame Kyishong town in Lhoka Gongkar county and was a monk at Rame monastery. Thupten reports that on 1 March,...

Profile: 17-year sentence for political activities

In a collective trial held by the Intermediate People's Court of the "Tibet Autonomous Region " on 30 November 1989, Ngawang Woeser was sentenced...

Monk dies in prison

Jamyang Trinlay, a monk from Chamdo monastery, died from severe beatings while in prison last year, says his former fellow-monk, 16-year-old Sonam Woeser. Sonam, who...

Disappearance

Chadra, a monk from Shabron Monastery in Nagehu region (north of Lhasa), has been missing since mid- February of thisyear. Kunchok Gelek, a monk...

A child’s dream of school

The growing number of children fleeing Tibet at a great risk, often sent by parents, is a clear indication of the desperation of Tibetans...

New Arrest

22-year-old old Gyun-ne Dorjee, a monk from Dargye Choeling Monastery, is from Noru in Tsethang sub-county under Lhoka region (close to Lhasa). He was...

Couple Imprisoned

Tsering Gyaltsen and Yangzom, a married couple from Lhasa, have been reported to be currently in detention after their arrest around the end of...

Principal arrested

The principal of Lhasa Shol School, Drakpa Nyendrak, was reportedly arrested in the first week of July this year for engaging in clandestine pro-Tibetan...