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China arrests a Tibetan civil servant in Mangra County, Qinghai Province

18 March 2009 The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) received a reliable information that a Tibetan civil servant was arrested by the...

Chinese authorities re-arrest Jigme Gyatso

The Chinese authorities re-arrested Jigme Gyatso, who was previously arrested on 23 March 2008 and then later released on 15 October 2008 for providing...

Tashi Dhondup’s younger brother disappeared in Tibet

According to a reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Jinpa Gyatso, a younger brother of a Chinese...

Self-immolated man asked to amputate his legs

According to a confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Tapey, a monk Kirti Jepa Monastery, Ngaba County,...

Tibetans Protest in Kardze during the Tibetan New Year

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) received a confirmed information from reliable sources that local Tibetans in Kardze County refused to...

Tibetan website proprietor arrested in Gansu province

According to information received by Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) from a reliable source, Kunchok Tsephel, who run a Tibetan language...

China Sentences four Puru-na Nuns in Kardze County

According to a reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Kardze Court recently sentenced four nuns of Puru-na...

Lithang under siege days after the protest

According to the latest information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Chinese authorities in Lithang County have significantly beefed...

Shops closed down, more detained in Lithang after protests

Chinese police in Lithang County, Sichuan province, on Monday detained at least five more Tibetans after they joined the “peaceful protest demonstration” staged by...

More cases of detention and disappearance emerges after Lithang Protest

According to additional information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) from reliable sources regarding the protest demonstration by 15...

Fifteen Tibetans arrested in Lithang after a peaceful protest

Following yesterday's solo protest by Lobsang Lhundup, a monk of Nekhor Monastery in Lithang County, Kardze "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture" ('TAP') Sichuan Province, a group...

Nine monks sentenced, other committed suicide in Tibet

Nine monks studying at Samye Monastery in Tibet were sentenced to varying prison terms between 2-15 years' in jail for their participation in the...