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Five monks from Bora Monastery ‘missing’ after detention

Official crackdown on Bora Monastery continues with the detention of five monks this month in Sangchu (Ch: Xiahe) County in Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan...

China ‘disappears’ three monks for sharing information about protests

Three Tibetan monks have ‘disappeared’ since their detention this month by local police in Chabcha (Ch: Gonghe) town of Serchen County in Tsolho (Ch:...

TIBETAN PURSUIT OF FREEDOM:A Letter from the Land of Snows

TCHRD has translated a letter written by a Tibetan monk, teacher and an activist in Tibet. Written in August 2012, the letter, sent anonymously from...

TCHRD releases documentary on Tibetan immolations

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) released today a short documentary film on Tibetan immolations that have captured the conscience of...

Tibetan religious festival marked by two self-immolation death

According to information received by TCHRD, two Tibetan men, a monk and a layman, have died after they burned themselves alive in separate incidents...

Unreported detentions related to self-immolations abound in Tibet

An unknown number of detentions related to protest self-immolations is being reported from areas where Tibetans have carried out continued protest self-immolations, according to...

Chinese police return ashes of Tibetan man to family

A Tibetan father of two who was forcibly taken away by police after his protest self-immolation on 30 November has died at a government...

Tibetan man hospitalised after latest protest self-immolation

A father of one has become the 91st Tibetan to carry out protest self-immolation against the Chinese government since February 2009 in Tibet. Sungdue Kyap,...

Defying official notice, three Tibetans die of self-immolation in Kanlho

Three Tibetans have died of burning protests in the last four days ignoring a 21 October notice issued by the prefectural government that offers...

Detentions reported in latest Tibetan protest self-immolation

A Tibetan father of two who self-immolated yesterday taken away along with a group of other Tibetans in Zoege (Ch: Ruo'ergai) County in Ngaba...

China alienates, angers Tibetan students with political education

In one of the major protests witnessed this year in Tibet, about a thousand Tibetan students at Sorig Lobling medical school in Chabcha (Ch:...

Nun’s last note celebrates Dalai Lama’s return

A Tibetan nun who died of protest self-immolation on 25 November had left a note, carefully put in an envelope, along with a photograph...