Tibet

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 17 April: Four Tibetans have been arrested and subsequently detained by the Chinese police after staging a protest against the Chinese authorities’ land expropriation in Markham, in the traditional Tibetan Province of Kham, reported RFA on 15 April, citing three sources from Tibet.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 15 April: Atsok Gon Dechen Choekhorling Monastery, a 19th-century Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo, and Tibetans living in the area are facing enforced relocation due to China’s construction of a hydropower dam on the Machu River that runs through it, reports RFA.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 11 April: A manual, containing a list of 10 rules, including the ban on displaying the Dalai Lama’s photo in the event of his demise, has been distributed in monasteries in the Amdo region of Tibet by Chinese authorities, reported the RFA on 9 April.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 10 April: Luktsang Palyon, a popular Tibetan-language blog in Tibet, has been shut down by the Chinese government for alleged copyright infringement, reports Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday. The administrator has filed a formal appeal with the authorities to restore it.

By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 9 March: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a Dharamsala-based Tibetan advocacy group, reported on Monday that a Tibetan monk from Ngaba County in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo was detained incommunicado by the Chinese authorities on 26 March after staging a lone protest calling for the “Return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet” and “Religious Freedom in Tibet.”

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA 28 March: Gonpo Kyi and Choekyong have filed a lawsuit against the Lhasa police for the mistreatment they suffered when the couple was detained and beaten in December 2023, as reported yesterday by the London-based advocacy group Free Tibet, citing its research partner Tibet Watch.

DHARAMSALA, 26 March: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy(TCHRD) has called for the immediate release of Tibetan singer Gegjom from China’s unjust detention. The Dharamsala-based rights group has expressed deep concern about Gegjom’s safety, citing the routine mistreatment of Tibetan detainees in undisclosed facilities without access to legal processe

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 21 March: Chinese authorities in Tibet are enticing investors from China by promising to allow their children to take the university entrance exam within Tibet in exchange for a minimum investment of $400,000, Reuters reported on Thursday.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 18 March: A wildfire that broke out on the evening of 15 March in Nyagchukha, Kham Kardze in Tibet, has led to the urgent evacuation of 1,360 households with 5,908 people, according to the latest news report from Khampa TV at 8 a.m. today.