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Guest Post: Placing psychiatric health manual of Chinese armed police in Tibet in context

The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) recently received and published a summary of a manual it published by the Sichuan Provincial...

News June 18, 2013

Nun dies of self-immolation, family placed under house arrest

According to sources inside Tibet, on 11 June, Wangchen Dolma, a nun from Tawu (Ch: Daofu) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture...

News June 18, 2013

‘So many myriad hellish sufferings’: Persecution of Tibetan artists

TCHRD has translated some of the songs from the album, ‘Agony of Unhealed Wounds’, to highlight the secret imprisonment of Tibetan musicians Chakdor and...

News June 17, 2013

Two Tibetan singers secretly sentenced but whereabouts unknown

Two Tibetan singers who were detained last year for releasing a music album titled “Agony of Unhealed Wounds” had been secretly sentenced to four years...

News June 13, 2013

Two monks sentenced to 3 yrs in prison for holding prayers for self-immolator

The relentless crackdown on self-immolation protests in Tibet continued when Chinese authorities sentenced two Tibetan monks to three years in prison for holding religious...

News June 5, 2013

My words are not tainted by lies and deception: Gartse Jigme

Imprisoned Tibetan monk and writer Gartse Jigme in a heartfelt appeal calls on the Chinese government to reach out to His Holiness the Dalai...

News May 30, 2013

Former longest-serving political prisoner still under house arrest after release

Almost a month after his release from prison on 24 April 2013, Lobsang Tenzin was finally allowed to see his extended family members and...

News May 25, 2013

China rejects universality of human rights in latest white paper

Last week, the Information Office of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, issued a white paper on “Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012”...

News May 21, 2013

Tibetan writer sentenced to 5 yrs in prison for writing book on self-immolation

By branding Dalai Lama as their enemy and neglecting the demands of self-immolators, they have shown that they consider more than 99% of the...

News May 21, 2013

Three Lives and A Song: Disappearance of Panchen Lama

Today marks the 18th year of Tibet's XIth Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima's disappearance into Chinese custody. One of the most important spiritual leaders...

News May 17, 2013

‘Weakness of the Oppressor’ : Leaked document exposes psychological traumas faced by Chinese armed police in Tibet

TCHRD has received a Chinese language copy of a manual published by the Sichuan Provincial Political Department of the People’s Armed Police Force (PAPF,...

News May 13, 2013

Nyatso Zilkar monk in poor health after imprisonment

An imprisoned monk from the restive Nyatso Zilkar Monastery in Trindu (Ch: Chenduo) County, Jyekundo (Ch: Yushu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Qinghai Province) was released...

News May 8, 2013

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