カテゴリー: Tibet
Exclusive: China appears to have expanded use of high-security prisons as tool of repression in Tibet, researchers sayThere has been a pattern of increased activity in recent years at high-security detention facilities in Tibet, according to a new stud…
Penpa Tsering, the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, has told Australia’s National Press Club the region is seeking autonomy, not independence from China. ‘So one polarity is the status of Tibet, historical status as an independent state, a…
Interaction at temple in India seen in video that has gone viral condemned as ‘inappropriate’ and ‘scandalous’The Dalai Lama has apologised after he faced allegations of inappropriate behaviour after kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to “s…
Landmark decision described as ‘huge victory for freedom of expression and right to peaceful protest in Europe’Activists who were accused of attempting to “pollute, damage and distort” the Acropolis after they hung a banner from the Athenian monument i…
Human Rights Watch claims new evidence of a systemic DNA collection drive across Tibet as part of a ‘crime detection’ programChinese authorities have been gathering DNA samples across Tibet, including from kindergarten children without the apparent con…
Travellers barred from sightseeing or returning home until confirmed clear of disease as authorities struggle to contain casesThousands of Chinese tourists have been left stranded in Tibet as authorities in the region struggle to contain a fresh Covid …
Mass testing in Tibetan cities of Lhasa and Shigatse after 21 infections, as millions are put under lockdown in tropical Hainan and tourists strandedChina is racing to stamp out Covid-19 outbreaks in the tourist hubs of Tibet and Hainan, with the autho…
The move in Tibet, which has reported one Covid case since 2020, comes as 16 million people remain in lockdown in ShanghaiAuthorities in Tibet are building massive Covid isolation and care facilities in anticipation of further outbreaks in China even t…
Brutal death of social media star Lhamo has shone spotlight on domestic violence in the countryA Chinese man has been sentenced to death after a court found him guilty of killing his ex-wife while she was livestreaming on social media last year.The int…
Politburo official makes remarks at Tibetan palace amid crackdown on practice of non-Han religionsAll Tibetans should embrace Communist party rule and share the “cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation”, a senior Chinese official has said at …
The spiritual leader has mused that he may return as a woman. But his succession has turned into a political battleA couple of years ago, during a meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamshala in India, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was asked about h…
Visit comes as China tightens control over region’s Buddhist culture and invests heavily in infrastructureThe Chinese leader has made his first visit to Tibet as president as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region’s traditional Buddhist…
Four men were jailed for up to 20 years after violent raid on monastery in 2019, says Human Rights WatchFour Tibetan monks were sentenced to up to 20 years jail in secret trials with no apparent evidence of criminal wrongdoing after a violent raid on a…
Chinese rule in Tibet has been characterised by brutal repression and ethnic cleansing, writes Terry Philpot – and yet the rest of the world takes little interestYour otherwise excellent editorial on the centenary of the Chinese Communist party (29 Ju…
28 May 1951: In return for help to raise the country’s living standards, China expects the Tibetan people to cooperate with its ‘liberation’ forcesHong Kong, 27 MayPeking radio confirmed to-night that an agreement for the “peaceful liberation” of Tibet…