The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) submitted a UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report ahead of the fourth periodic review of the People’s Republic of China in January 2024.  The submission outlined a number of concerns...

The Chinese authorities are imposing extreme restrictions on the movement and activity of monks by implementing various policies within the monasteries of Tibet. Under the various policies implemented by the Chinese government on Tibetans, these intense restrictions are imposed...

They also seek to inspire those living under China’s repression in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Rand report sheds light on oppressive but poorly scrutinized mass arrests in the autonomous region.

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This report examines the accessibility of certain types of content on VK (an abbreviation for “VKontakte”), a Russian social networking service, in Canada, Ukraine, and Russia. Among these countries, we found that Russia had the most limited access to...

& During their official tour to Ahmedabad, MTK director, Mr. Thupten Tsering and branch department head, Mr. Ngawang Chemi, met up with Mr. Manoj Vadodara, sponsor of the branch clinic, along with the resident doctor, Dr. Tenzin Tsomo and...

On July 21st, a non-Tibetan tourist kicked and tumbled the Tibetan holy Mani stone mound near Mount Everest in Dingri County, Shigatse, Tibetan Autonomous Region. The video of this incident has gone viral; he is currently being detained and...

During a horse racing festival in Serchen County in Tsolho prefecture of Amdo Tibet, (Qinghairovince), local Tibetans were accused of conducting illegal sales of minor goods from the trunks/boots of privately owned vehicles. A short video of more than...

Abstract: Tibet and Mongolia had close historical and religious ties since the times of Genghis Khan who conquered nearly the whole of Asia and Eastern Europe in the 13th century. Tibetan Lamas and the descendants of Genghis Khan developed...

The Chinese authorities are systematically erasing the court verdicts of Tibetans charged with the vaguely worded and broadly defined crimes of "endangering state security," wiping them from public databases. This unlawful practice extends beyond Tibet's Autonomous Region, resulting in...

Authorities took down tents and destroyed sand mandala with water.

‘We are amplifying the voices of Tibetans inside Tibet,’ says one participant.

Germany released its long-awaited China Strategy Paper on July 13, 2024. The 64-page document states that China’s economic strategy is “making international production chains more dependent on China” and its foreign policy is “attempting in various ways to reshape...

Funded by USAID, the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration organized a 3-day program on the Safety and Efficacy of Traditional Tibetan Medicine in Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) from 11 to 13 July 2023 at Conference Hall,...

China Change, a US nonprofit founded by Chinese nationals, interviewed Ai Weiwei, the Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist in May 2023 in Portugal and published the interview in three parts on its website in late June and early...

The Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament, a statutory committee of the Parliament that has responsibility for oversight of the UK Intelligence Community, presented a detailed intelligence threat from China to the UK to Parliament on July...

Move is the latest example of Beijing’s efforts to suppress expressions of Tibetan Buddhism.

Read the full report “Beautiful Bauhinia: “HKLeaks” – The Use of Covert and Overt Online Harassment Tactics to Repress 2019 Hong Kong Protests.” What is this report about, and what did it find? The report is an in-depth analysis...

In August 2019 a wave of websites and social media channels, called “HKLEAKS,” began “doxxing” the identities and personal information of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. While the creators of these sites and channels claimed that HKLEAKS was the...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been expanding the use of exit bans and targeting everyone from human rights defenders to foreign journalists according to a new report from Safeguard Defenders. An Exit Ban is a state-initiated ban on...

China protested the Tibetan spiritual leader’s meeting with a U.S. delegation in New Delhi.

Over 60 human rights organizations, bar associations, scholars and Chinese human rights activists marked China Human Rights Lawyers Day on July 10 by remembering the Chinese government’s roundup of over 300 human rights lawyers and legal assistants in the...

Hong Kong police on July 3 offered a reward of up to 1 million Hong Kong dollars (US$128,000) for information that would bring about the arrest of prominent democracy activists residing overseas in the latest and most brazen example...