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China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...
Breakthrough at the UN sees an unprecedented 21 countries confront the Chinese government over its human rights record in Tibet… ...
For a second time, Tower Hamlets Council has unanimously voted against China’s plans for a super embassy in the London borough. After hearing from residents and the Metropolitan Police, and taking ...
A 99-foot statue of Buddha, built with a financial contribution of 40,000,000 Yuan from local Tibetans in Drago (Ch: Luhuo 炉霍) County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, was ...
Tibet Watch has learned that three senior monks from Drago Monastery are still severely ill after their release from prison four years ago. The three monks, Tsewang Namgyal, Tengya, and another monk ...
Tibetans and activists celebrated a campaign victory last week as Special Rapporteurs from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officially raised concerns around ...
Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan political prisoner, Tsultrim Gyatso, was handed a six-month reduction of his prison sentence in April last year. The ruling by the ...
In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...
A coalition of campaign groups opposed to the Chinese government’s human rights atrocities have come together in London today to protest against Beijing being… ...
Tibet Watch has learned of the demolition of a third large Buddhist statue in Drago County. In November 2021, Chinese authorities of Drago County demolished a statue of eighth-century Indian Tantric ...
China’s President Xi Jinping has been invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, whilst the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Tibetan government-in-exile have been ignored (1). Free Tibet is ...
Nepalese artists, Tibetan film makers and Tibet supporters came together to protest the decision by the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival’s decision last month to programme a series of ...