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Monk Dorgay of Nagchu Shabten Monastery arrested

On 6 July 2011, Dorgay, a monk of Shabten Monastery in Dickyi Township of Nagchu (Ch: Naqu) County in Tibet Autonomous Region was arrested...

“Legal education” claim purely propaganda, account for the disappeared

11 June 2011 The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) welcomes the statement by the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance...

Tibetan nun beaten and detained for peaceful protest

Jampa Tso, a nun from Badak Phuntsok Choeling Nunnery, located in Drango (Ch: Lhuhuo) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture", Sichuan, has...

Rebkong students Rise Against Sinicization of Education

On 19 October 2010 in Rebkong (Chinese: Tongren) county in Malho "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture" "(TAP)" in Qinghai province, thousands of Tibetan students came out...

Tibetan intellectual Gyitsang Takmig released

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) received the news that, Kelsang Tsultrim, pen name Gyitsang Takmig from Kanlho “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”...

Nun mentally unstable after torture in detention

A Tibetan nun jailed in May 2008 had become “mentally unsound” after being reportedly tortured in prison and was handed over to her family...

Six Family Members Arbitrarily Detained and Sentenced Over Their Activism

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the Chinese authorities' incomprehensible attack on Karma Samdrup and several members his family....

Lhasa Court sentences one Tibetan to death and five to lengthy prison terms

The Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court has sentenced a Tibetan, Sonam Tsering, to death with two years reprieve and five other Tibetans to lengthy imprisonment terms...

A lone protester calling for proper allocation of earthquake relief arrested

An exile Tibetan returnee was arrested yesterday for staging a solo protest in front of Tsuglakhang in Lhasa, according to confirmed information received from...

Tibetan students staged peaceful protest in Machu County

Tibetan students in Machu County, Kanlho "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture" ('TAP') in Gansu Province have staged a peaceful protest on 3 April 2010 against the...

Chinese court sentences Serthar monk to lengthy prison term

A Chinese Intermediate People's court in Sichuan Province has sentenced a Tibetan monk, who remained incommunicado since his arrest in July 2008, to seven...

China arrests three monks, closes school in Qinghai

Three monks of Ditsa Monastery including a reincarnated lama was arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Chinese security forces under suspicion of their involvement...