Tibet

Chinese police have arrested a young Tibetan mother of two for staging lone protest in restive Ngaba county.

DHARAMSALA, Jul 16: Ignoring pleas from Tibetans across the world and international bodies, Chinese authorities have cremated the body of Trulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche who passed away in Chinese prison on July 12 while serving life sentence.

DHARAMSALA, Jul 15: Chinese police have fired indiscriminately at peaceful Tibetan protesters demanding the return of the body of Trulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly revered reincarnate lama and one of the most prominent Tibetan political prisoners, who died in Chinese prison after serving 13 years into his life sentence.

DHARAMSALA, Jul 14: A senior Tibetan Buddhist scholar has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Chinese court in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.

DHARAMSALA, Jul 13: A well respected Tibetan spiritual teacher known to be in failing health condition has died in Chinese prison after repeated calls for his medical treatment were denied by Chinese authorities.

DHARAMSALA, Jul 10: Sonam Topgyal, a 26-yr-old Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in eastern Tibet in an apparent protest against China’s repressive rule in Tibet.

DHARAMSALA, July 2: China has sentenced three Tibetan businessmen from restive Driru county in Traditional Kham province’s Nagchu prefecture (now incorporated into Tibet Autonomous Region) to eight years each in prison and a poet from the same county to seven years in prison in May this year.

DHARAMSALA, May 27: Reports emerging out of Tibet say patriotic re-education campaigns, already in place at Tsendhen monastery in Sog county in traditional Kham province’s Nagchu prefecture (now incorporated into Tibet Autonomous Region) are being intensified and around 40 residents of the county have been reportedly arrested for travelling outside TAR.