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TCHRD calls on Chinese government to stop mining at sacred mountain

Rampant open-pit mining activities conducted for more than a decade by the Chinese authorities at Tibet’s sacred Gong Ngon Lari Soul Mountain have faced...

Tibetan political prisoner released from prison after 21 years, detained again three years later

Chinese authorities have detained Lodoe Gyatso, a former Tibetan political prisoner who was released from prison three years ago after serving 21 years. Lodoe Gyatso...

Chinese police arbitrarily detain Tibetan monk to prevent self-immolation protest

  Chinese authorities have arbitrarily detained a 23-yr old Tibetan monk because he was suspected of planning to stage a self-immolation protest against the repressive...

TCHRD condemns “unspeakable action” by Chinese ambassador in Germany

  The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) condemns the government of People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) oppressive treatment of Michael Brand, a...

Tibetan writer sentenced to 7.5 years after more than a year of secret detention

Chinese authorities have sentenced yet another Tibetan writer to prison for seven years and six months after holding him incommunicado for more than a...

Chinese government destroys evidence of Tibetan woman’s self-immolation

Chinese authorities have destroyed photographic and video evidence of a self-immolation protest staged by a 50-year-old Tibetan woman in Dzoege (Chinese: Ru’ergai) County located...

Peaceful Tibetan solo protester released after serving two years in juvenile prison

  Yesterday, on 5 May 2016, Lobsang Tenpa, a solo Tibetan protester was released from a juvenile prison facility located in Chengdu city, Sichuan Province....

Tibetan protester carrying Dalai Lama’s portrait detained by Chinese traffic police

A Tibetan monk from the local Kirti Monastery who staged a peaceful solo protest against Chinese government policies was detained in Ngaba (Ch: Aba)...

TCHRD holds a discussion on situation of Tibetan political prisoners in US

On 21 April 2016, the second talk in the TCHRD’s United States Tibet Talk Series was at the International Campaign for Tibet’s office in...

China must end enforced disappearance of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama

Today is the 27th birthday of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the reincarnate of the previous 10th Panchen Lama, one of the most important spiritual leaders of Tibet....

Four Tibetan land rights petitioners given suspended sentence

Four Tibetan men have been given suspended jail sentences for petitioning against government confiscation of their land in Ka Bharma nomadic camp in Thangkor...

China’s ill-advised development policy led to protest by Tibetan graduates

  A group of Tibetan graduates staged a peaceful protest against unfair dismissals from jobs that later ended in detention in Machu (Ch: Maqu) County...