Tibet

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 23 Oct: A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Drachen County in Nagchu, occupied Tibet, late Thursday night, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens, as reports emerged that Tibetans travelling to the affected area to assist survivors were being turned back by local authorities.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 23 Oct:The Tadra Project is currently in negotiations with Chinese authorities regarding the future of its children’s village in Golok, Eastern Tibet, after being prohibited from holding classes on its premises. Project leadership clarified that the facility has not been completely shut down and continues to support 600 children across its programs.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 22 Oct: Eight Tibetan homes and three large residential compounds were forcibly demolished by Chinese authorities on 16 October in the Nyi-woe residential area of Darlag County, located in the Golok region of Amdo, eastern Tibet.

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 21 Oct: Chinese authorities have forcibly closed at least three privately run Tibetan schools in occupied Tibet’s Golok region of Amdo between August and September 2026, depriving children of educational institutions that prioritised Tibetan language, culture and community traditions, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 9 Oct: China’s development of DeepZang, a Tibetan-language artificial intelligence model, has taken an explicitly political turn, with its founder pledging to advance the technology to promote state-directed ethnic integration. The announcement has brought into sharper focus concerns over how artificial intelligence could extend Chinese colonial control over Tibet into the digital sphere.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 22 Sept: The whereabouts and well-being of prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader and educator Choktrul Dorje Ten remain unknown more than nine months after his arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities, despite seven formal appeals submitted by his family members and students seeking information about his condition, according to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 31 August: The toll from last week’s devastating floods in Tibet’s Kyirong region appears to be significantly higher than figures released by Chinese authorities, according to new information gathered by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), amid growing concerns over Beijing’s restrictions on information from the disaster zone.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 21 August: China is cultivating a new generation of leaders in Tibet who are expected to enforce Beijing’s assimilation policies, with political loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) taking precedence over meaningful Tibetan representation, according to a new report by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 5 August: Gonpo Tsering, a 46-year-old Tibetan monk and administrator at Yena Monastery in Derge County

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 30  July: Chinese state media has confirmed that a historic stone fortress in Tibet’s eastern Gyalrong region was demolished by authorities, attributing the destruction to an expressway construction project. The official admission comes weeks after footage of a bulldozer tearing down the structure circulated online around 14 July, triggering widespread grief inside occupied Tibet and condemnation from Tibetan exile communities.