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China blocks US Resolution on Human Rights at 60th UNHCHR

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) expresses its dismay over the rejection of a draft resolution on human rights situation in...

News April 16, 2004

Five students from Tibet University detained, one expelled

In June 2003 there was news of five Tibetans arrested from the Tibet University in Lhasa. Dawa Tashi, one of the students arrested at...

News April 14, 2004

TCHRD releases report on Trulku Tenzin Delek

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has released a new report titled “Unjust Sentence: A Special Report on Trulku Tenzin Delek”...

News March 11, 2004

Phuntsok Nyidron, Tibet’s longest serving female political prisoner released by China after 15 years

China released Phuntsok Nyidron, the last of the "Drapchi 14 singing nuns" on 26 February 2004. According to John Kamm, President of the San...

News February 27, 2004

Drapchi 14 Nun-Prisoner Namdrol Lhamo Released

TCHRD received confirmed information that Namdrol Lhamo, one of the last two Drapchi 14 nuns in prison, was released in September 2003. She is...

News February 3, 2004

Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, Abbot of Serthar Buddhist Institute Dies

TCHRD received confirmed information that Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, the Founder Abbot of Serthar Buddhist Institute died in the evening of 6 January 2004 in...

News January 7, 2004

A Tibetan Teacher sentenced to five years’ imprisonment term

TCHRD received confirmed information that Nyima Tsering, 65, a teacher, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment term by Gyantse Intermediate People’s Court in June...

News December 16, 2003

Prisoner on medical parole succumbs to torture inflicted in prison

TCHRD has learned through reliable sources the demise of Nyima Drakpa, 29, in his home on 1 October 2003. Nyima Drakpa, who was serving nine years’...

News October 3, 2003

Ngaba Kirti Monastic School closed, patron dissappears

According to confirmed information received from Tibet, the Chinese authorities closed down Kirti Monastic School (Tib translit: kirti’ nang bstan slob gling) on 29...

News September 23, 2003

China releases monk serving seven years’ sentence

Luzi Tashi Phuntsok, who was serving seven years’ imprisonment sentence in Yakra Phuk Prison (Tib translit: gyag ra phuk), was released on 28 July...

News July 31, 2003

Death of a Tibetan prisoner of conscience due to torture

According to reliable information received from Tibet, Lobsang Dhargyal suddenly died Monday morning on 19 November 2002 in a Manufacturing Unit for Hydro-Electricity Power...

News November 20, 2002

Dispossessed: Land and Housing Rights in Tibet

For many years human rights monitors have reported on China's denial of political and civil freedoms rather than focusing on economic issues. In return,...

News August 1, 2002

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