Human Rights Updates

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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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