DHARAMSALA, 23 Aug: Subjected to constantan surveillance, Tibetan language advocate and former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk has been brutally thrashed by a group of unidentified, masked men at a hotel in Golok in eastern Tibet, while the apathy of the authorities-police and doctor- has forced him to spend a night on a stool in the hospital on Saturday.
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A call for Beijing to use ‘Xizang’ instead of ‘Tibet’ in reference to the CCP’s demarcated Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) was raised by academics at the 7th International Tibetan Studies seminar held in Beijing from 14 -16 August, the CCP’s United Front Work Department reported according to the South China Morning Post report on Thursday.
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The experts decry the lack of information regarding their detention, trial and sentencing and urged “the Chinese government to provide details on why and where they are being held and their health conditions, provide them with adequate medical care and permit their families access to visit them.”
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Tibetan writer Dhi Lhaden’s recent release from prison after completing his four years sentence, though a joyous occasion – “raises concerns over the uncertainty surrounding his physical and psychological well-being” says the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) in their report today.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 9 Aug: The Tibetan men’s national football team got knocked out of CONIFA Asia Cup following two subsequent losses at the group stage despite a competitive game under the unfortunate circumstances of eight players’ absence.
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DHARAMSALA, 7 Aug: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, the special guest at the inauguration of the Tibet Museum’s temporary exhibition titled “Mapping Tibet” said that we should concentrate less on defining what Tibet is based on the political boundary and focus more on collecting, creating, standardising, and understanding cultural and geographical feature names in the Tibetan language so that we can own our place.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 7 Aug: The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 75 points new guidelines on religious activities, effective from 1 September, will have all places of worship within China mandatorily prioritise CCP’s leadership and its policies under the rubric of “sinicization”, reported Tibetan Review.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 5 Aug: China has built expansive intelligence apparatus focused on silencing the ‘five poisons’ the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) sees as its top threats, according to British Intelligence as reported by Business Insider on Friday.
By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 4 Aug: The President of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) Penpa Tsering has called Beijing’s ‘One China Policy’ a widely misunderstood policy that has no relevance to Tibet.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 3 Aug: Gonpo Kyi, who has been fighting justice for her incarcerated brother for over a decade now, has again staged a protest in front of Drapchi prison on 1 August, appealing to the Chinese authorities to allow a meeting as promised but to no avail.
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