Tibet

DHARAMSALA, 21 March: A former political prisoner of Tibet has passed away earlier this week due to prolonged health complications sustained during his time in the Chinese prison.

DHARAMSALA, 10 Feb: A Tibetan monk from eastern Tibet has been released by the Chinese authorities after serving over two years in prison in the Chinese occupied Tibet.

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.

DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: Chinese authorities have issued a stern directive to the parents of Tibetan children at a school in Lhasa, the Tibetan Capital forcing them to ban their children from taking part in religious activities over the winter holidays.

DHARAMSALA, 6 Dec: The Chinese communist regime has started the new decade with a major military exercise by deploying latest weapons including the Type 15 tank and the new 155-millimetre vehicle-mounted howitzer in Tibet bordering India as it began its first round of exercises in 2020.

DHARAMSALA, 6 Dec: The Communist regime in Tibet has deployed a large number of heavily-armed police in Dza Wonpo and surrounding villages in Zachukha in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham after the region witnessed two separate protests in November last year calling for Tibetan independence.

DHARAMSALA, 28 Nov: A Tibetan youth has set himself on fire in restive Ngaba County in eastern Tibet’s Amdo Province in the latest self-immolation protest against China’s repressive policies in occupied Tibet.  

DHARAMSALA, 21 Nov: Chinese authorities have arrested two more Tibetans from Zachukha in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham for staging a protest in front of a Chinese police station in the region.

DHARAMSALA, 19 Nov: Chinese authorities have arrested four Tibetan monks from Zachukha in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham after hundreds of pamphlets demanding Tibet’s independence were thrown inside the courtyard of a Chinese government’s buildings in the region.

DHARAMSALA, 5 Oct: A young Tibetan monk from Kirti monastery in restive Ngaba county in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo has disappeared after he was whisked away by the Chinese authorities.