The January 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: New regulation on ‘national unity’ adopted in TAR raises concerns of accelerated assimilation Grassroots surveillance program extended for ninth year in a row TAR’s 2020 plan prioritises ‘stability maintenance’ and ‘fight against Dalai Clique’ TAR branch of United Front holds conference on ethnic and religious…
The December 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet includes the following articles: China rewards 49 monasteries and 4,130 monks and nuns upholding its religious policy TAR Party leaders emphasize opposing separatism on visit to Jokhang Temple in Lhasa Training Course for monastery management cadres in Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Stability maintenance inspection…
A Tibetan man was detained in a ‘re-education’ facility for over a month after he was caught conversing on phone with his younger brother about the importance of teaching Tibetan to their children in Dingri (Ch: Tingri) County, Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) City, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the illegal sentencing of Mr A-nya Sengdra, a Tibetan nomad and anti-graft campaigner, to seven years of imprisonment and calls for his immediate release from arbitrary detention. The verdict, issued on 6 December, was based on vague and overbroad criminal charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “gathering…
The November 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet includes the following articles: Tibetan environmentalist identifies decades of government mismanagement as major cause for degradation of Tibetan grassland Kardze County has 17 ‘Civilization Practice Centers’ to promote Party propaganda and traditional Chinese culture Chinese authorities vow to eliminate ‘Dalai Clique’ in fight against…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been informed by a reliable source about human rights violations pertaining to land, livelihood and women’s rights in Zurtso (Ch: Suozuo) Township, Nyalam (Ch: Nielamu) County, Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang.
Local Chinese authorities have been attempting to relocate residents of Zurtso Township to nearby government-built housing facilities for quite sometime. The local authorities claim that the old houses had become unstable due to the tremors felt during the 2015 earthquake that wrought extensive damage on neighbouring Nepal.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been informed by reliable sources about the arbitrary detention of a Tibetan man on the eve of a political anniversary deemed sensitive by Chinese authorities. Pema Samdup, 26, was detained on the morning of 9 March this year in Lhasa, a day before the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan National…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has utmost concern for the physical and psychological health and wellbeing of a Tibetan monk who remains in incommunicado detention since September this year in Ngaba County in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. Sonam Palden, 22, was detained on the…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been informed by reliable sources about the arbitrary detention of Mr Wangchuk in Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. According to the information received, Mr Wangchuk, 45, was detained by Chinese police officers around 8 March this year. He was detained from Shigatse city while he was returning from…
The October 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet includes the following articles: Disguised as ‘legal education’, China organizes workshop to brainwash monks and nuns in pledging loyalty to Chinese Communist Party Sinicisation of Tibetan Buddhism emphasized at First Symposium on Buddhist Thought Construction Chinese national flags blanket Tibetan landscape in Lithang Alleviating…
More than a year before the expiration of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), Chinese authorities have completed its target of relocating 52,000 nomadic and farming households consisting of 200,000 people in the Tibetan areas of Qinghai Province. China’s major state TV broadcaster CCTV claimed on 12 September that the relocation program has improved the economic conditions of rural population…