On 1 December 2024, China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs, the highest official body that regulates all recognised religions in China issued a revised version of the “Measures for the Administration of Tibetan Buddhist Temples.” Adopted in September 2024 and came into force on 1 January 2025, the new regulation significantly expanded state control over Tibetan religious practice by embedding political mandates…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has released a new report today in its Dissenting Voices series, documenting the intensifying crackdown on freedom of expression and information in Tibet under President Xi Jinping. Since Xi Jinping’s meteoric surge to power, the Chinese government has pursued an increasingly repressive strategy aimed at consolidating its authority and silencing independent…
A Tibetan village leader has died from severe torture inflicted during seven months of detention by Chinese authorities, raising grave concerns about the fate of 20 other detainees, including the prominent religious figure Khenpo Tenpa Dhargye in Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Gonpo Namgyal, a village leader from Ponkor village, succumbed to injuries sustained during his seven months in…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) extends its wholehearted support and solidarity to the Canada Tibet Committee as it came under attack on 21 December when the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs imposed reprehensible sanctions. The sanctions including asset freezes and bans on entry represent yet another attempt by the Chinese government to silence and undermine the legitimacy of overseas human…
As the world commemorates the 76th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), we are reminded of its enduring message: civil, economic, political, and cultural rights are universal, inalienable, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. For over seven decades, this landmark proclamation has been a source of inspiration in the global fight for justice, equality, and dignity.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is looking for an English Researcher at its office at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. The centre invites applicants with excellent research and analytical skills, excellent English language proficiency, and working knowledge of Tibetan.
Tsongon Tsering, a resident of Tsaruma village in Kakhog (Ch: Hongyuan) County, Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, has been sentenced to eight months in prison on 27 October by the Kyungchu (Ch: Qiongxi) County People’s Court. He was convicted on the trumped-up charge of “disrupting social order.” Tsering had been detained incommunicado after gaining widespread attention online for exposing large-scale illegal mining along the river in his village.
On 9 November, a respected Tibetan writer and intellectual, Rongwo Gendun Lhundup was released from a Chinese prison. While Tibetan writers, artists, intellectuals, and activists inside and outside Tibet celebrated his release on social media, the reality remains grim. Like all former Tibetan political prisoners convicted on trumped-up charges, Rongwo Gendun Lhundup, despite being released, is placed under heavy surveillance and restrictions.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) conducted a seven-week long advocacy and capacity building activities aimed at countering China’s transnational repression in Europe. Part of TCHRD’s strategic actions to hold Chinese government accountable for spreading fear and disempowering exiled Tibetan activists and organisations, TCHRD’s executive director Ms Tenzin Dawa and manager Ms Phurbu Dolma held briefings and interactions with various stakeholders including parliamentarians, policy makers, public officials, human rights experts and other civil society members on the findings of TCHRD’s report on transnational repression and discussed possible solutions. Workshops on the ways to counter transnational repression were organised to build the capacity of Tibetan civil society members in six European countries.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) recently concluded its Child Rights awareness campaign, engaging thousands of Tibetan students across India and Nepal. These workshops were conducted in various Tibetan schools, including Namgyal Middle Boarding High School, Songtsen Bhrikuti Boarding High School, and Namgyal Secondary School under the Snow Lion Foundation, SOS Hermann Gmeiner School in Pokhara, Nepal…
Tsongon Tsering, a 29-year-old Tibetan from Tsaruma village in Kakhog (Ch: Hongyuan) County, Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Prefecture, Sichuan Province, was detained earlier this week after he posted a video registering a complaint about large-scale sand and gravel mining along the river in Tsaruma village, which is the source of Asia’s two largest rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow River.