Young Chinese journalist-activist freed from detention
DHARAMSALA, 18 Jan: Renowned Chinese journalist-activist has been released by the Chinese authorities after nearly three months in detention.
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China continues to violate Human Rights of Tibetans, poses existential threat to the rights of people worldwide: HRW annual report
DHARAMSALA, 17 Jan: Human Rights Watch has said that China poses an existential threat to the rights of people worldwide and called out China for severely restricting the religious freedom, speech, movement, and assembly, of Tibetans in their 2020 annual report.
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China calls Senator Rubio’s criticism over its blatant human rights violations ‘absurd’ and ‘ill-intended’
DHARAMSALA, 16 Jan: China has called US Senator Marco Rubio’s criticism over its “blatant human rights violations” as an absurd and ill-intended attack.
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Face reality and show respect, Taiwan’s President tells China
DHARAMSALA, 16 Jan; China needs to “face reality” and show Taiwan “respect” Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has said just days after she was re-elected for a second term with a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election.
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China’s rubber-stamp legislature in Tibet passes law making ‘ethnic unity’ mandatory
DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: Beijing’s rubberstamp legislature in Tibet has passed a law in its occupied Tibet that identified Tibetans as Chinese ethnic minorities while making ethnic unity mandatory.
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China bars international human rights group head from entering Hong Kong
DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: China has barred the global head of Human Rights Watch from entering Hong Kong, where he was scheduled to launch the organisation’s latest world report this week, the Guardian reported on Monday.
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China’s new ethnic identity law reflects its failure in Tibet, Xinjiang-style campaign may follow: analysts
A veteran China-watcher has said that the new ethnic identity law in Tibet is reflective of Beijing’s current insecurities in the region whose population they have so far failed to integrate into the mainstream Chinese identity, despite repeated claims from the Beijing leadership stating otherwise.
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Dalai Lama congratulates Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on her re-election
DHARAMSALA, 13 Jan: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Sunday congratulated Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen after she secured a second term in office following a landslide victory in the country’s election on Saturday.
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Dalai Lama offers condolences to Australian PM over bushfires
DHARAMSALA, 9 Jan: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Wednesday extended condolences to the Prime Minister and the people of Australia over “the bush fires that have devastated so much of their beautiful country.”
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Free Tibet’s ‘The Crossing’ wins best animated short film at International Film Festival for a Culture of Peace
DHARAMSALA, 8 Jan: A short animation film created by the London-based advocacy group Free Tibet took home the best animated short film at International Film Festival for a Culture of Peace (FICCPaz).
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