Advocacy against worship of Dorjee Shugden lands elderly Tibetan man in jail for one and half years in Chamdo
DHARAMSALA, Dec 16: An elderly Tibetan man has been sentenced to one and half years in prison in early December
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Dec 16: An elderly Tibetan man has been sentenced to one and half years in prison in early December
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Dec 9: A 33-yr-old Tibetan monk-writer was released on Dec 5 after completing four and half years’ prison term.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Dec 6: A former student of Dharamsala-based Upper Tibetan Children’s School serving a 15-year prison term in the infamous Chushur prison near Lhasa city has died on Dec 5, two days after he was released from the prison, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a rights group based in Dharamsala said today.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Nov 27: A young Tibetan Buddhist monk has been arrested by Chinese police on Nov 26 for carrying out a lone protest challenging Chinese rule in Tibet on the streets of Sershul County in Kardze Prefecture of former Kham Province in eastern Tibet.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Nov 26: Another earthquake jolted Dartsedo County in Kardze Prefecture in traditional Tibet’s Kham Province at 11:19 pm (local time) Tuesday, three days after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit the same area killing five people.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Nov 24: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted a heavily Tibetan populated region in Kardze Prefecture in Sichuan Province on Nov
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Nov 17: Around 26 nuns have been kicked out from a more than 500 years old nunnery for not agreeing to denigrate the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Nov 11: Lobsang Tenpa and Lobsang Gyatso, both monks of Kirti monastery in Amdo Province’s Ngaba area, who carried out lone protests on separate dates, have been sentenced to two and three years in prison respectively.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Nov 6: A group of Tibetan students on Nov 1 protested against the Chinese policy of making Chinese language rather than Tibetan language as the medium of instruction in Tibetan nomadic schools in Dzoege and neighbouring counties in Amdo’s Ngaba Prefecture (now incorporated into Sichuan Province).
Read moreDHRAMSALA, Nov 5: Three Tibetans have been sentenced to up to three years in prison on alleged ‘murder charge’ in Meruma, Ngaba County in Amdo Province (incorporated into present day Sichuan) in connection with a Tibetan man’s self-immolation last year in the same county, Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet, a Dharamsala-based Tibetan ex-political prisoners’ organization made the announcement at a press conference held here today.
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