DHARAMSALA, 11 Dec: With at least 48 journalists in prison, China is the world’s leading jailer of journalists in 2019, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’(CPJ) 2019 annual prison census.
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DHARAMSALA, 10 Dec: Hundreds of Tibetans and supporters today gathered at the courtyard of Tsug-lag-Khang, the main temple in Mcleod Ganj to attend the official function to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the conferment of Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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DHARAMSALA, 9 Dec: The Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission(TSJC) has disbarred Kashag’s lawyer Lobsang Dakpa for criticising its ruling in the case no 20 and subsequently failing to appear twice for a contempt hearing.
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Agence France-Presse | 9 Dec 2019.
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial law allowing independent journalists and bloggers to be labelled as “foreign agents”, a move that critics say will violate media freedom.
Agence France-Presse | 9 Dec 2019.
Finland’s Social Democrats elected a 34-year-old former transport minister to the post of prime minister on Sunday, making her the youngest head of government in the country’s history.
DHARAMSALA, 9 Dec: Tibetan rights group urges the UN member-states to defend universal human rights by protecting civil society voices ahead of the world human rights day.
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DHARAMSALA, 6 Dec: China has used the Great Cannon to disrupt pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong that gripped the island since June earlier this year.
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DHARAMSALA, 5 Dec: The capital of the Czech Republic and Taiwan will sign a “sister city” agreement hard on the heels of the former cancelling one with Beijing.
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DHARAMSALA, 4 Dec: The US House of Representative has overwhelmingly passed a law that calls for a tough response to China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims in East Turkistan.
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DHARAMSALA, 3 Dec: The Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama based in New Delhi has written to the government of India to exempt Tibetan students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s(JNU) “exorbitant fee” hike for foreign students.
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