Australian Senator Dean Smith urged the government to implement Magnitsky-style sanctions against Chinese officials involved in transnational repression. Raising concerns over China's new "Ethnic Unity and Progress Law," he called for formal recognition of such intimidation as a national...

China’s rule in Tibet has always been heavy‑handed, but under Xi Jinping it has become tyrannical. Since 1950, Tibet has endured Beijing’s heavy hand, but under Xi Jinping the repression… The post Xi’s tyranny in Tibet: A frontier of darkness appeared...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug22’26) – China is cultivating a more repressive leadership in Tibet as it has begun implementing its forced assimilation policy there under the cover of its Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress (Ethnic Unity Law), and ahead...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug22’26) – An Australian Senator has on Aug 20 called for targeted sanctions against Chinese leaders responsible for carrying out transnational repression against Tibetans and others under Beijing’s recently enforced Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. This...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug21’26) – Prayer services as well as peace and protest marches have been held by Tibetan communities and supporters across the free world Over Aug 19-20, marking the end of the seven weeks since Lobsang Palden, better known...

OPINION After witnessing a video commentary on the second fact-finding delegation sent by His Holiness the Dalai Lama which toured Tibet from 1 May 1980, Phuntsog Wangyal*, a member of that delegation, asks that the record be set straight...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 21: Chinese authorities are continuing to suppress online advocacy and restrict prison visits concerning Tibetan businessman and philanthropist Dorjee Tashi, who has been imprisoned since 2008 and is serving a life sentence in Lhasa’s Drapchi...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 21: With a black backpack on his shoulders and the Tibetan National flag carried alongside the Indian flag, Tibetan activist Lhodrak Tharchin set out on a lone Rangzen march or Azad Yatra from Dharamshala’s Police Ground to...

US Ambassador Sergio Gor visited Ladakh’s iconic Thiksey Monastery after his Srinagar engagements, adding a cultural and strategic dimension to his first trip to the Union Territory.

Canberra: Senator Dean Smith, Co-Chair of the Australian Parliamentary Group for Tibet, raised concerns in the Senate on 20 September 2026 about China’s new “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law” and its potential impact on Tibetans living in Australia. Senator...

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,...

Dharamshala: On 20 August 2026, commemorating the 49th day since the self-immolation of Lobga Rangzen in front of the United Nations, Kalon (Minister) of the Department of Religion and Culture, Tsegyal Chukya Dranyi, attended a special prayer offering and...

Dharamshala:  On 19 August 2026, on the third day of his official visit, Kalon (Minister) of the Department of Religion and Culture (DoRC), Tsegyal Chukya Dranyi, visited Ganden  Lachi, Ganden Shartse Monastery, Ganden Jangtse Thoesam Norling Monastery, Nyingma (Dorje...

By Khedroob Thondup Since 1950, Tibet has endured Beijing’s heavy hand, but under Xi Jinping the repression has metastasised into something far more sinister. Xi has not merely continued the policies of his predecessors—he has elevated them into a...

US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor visited the 15th-century Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh on Friday. Situated 19 km from Leh, the hilltop site overlooks the Indus River. The visit follows engagements across Jammu and Kashmir and highlights strengthening India-US...

Around 70 Tibetans from the Dalhousie settlement participated in a peaceful bike rally from Dalhousie to Chamba, expressing solidarity with Lobga Rangzen, who reportedly died following self-immolation in July earlier this year outside the UN headquarters.

By Khedroob Thondup Broken Promises and Betrayed Autonomy. Seventeen-Point Agreement: Signed under duress, this treaty promised Tibet autonomy. Within years, Beijing shredded those commitments, replacing them with direct rule and military suppression. 1959 Uprising: Tibetans rose in mass resistance,...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – Latest satellite images are stated to confirm reports that China has been carrying out large-scale demolitions at the famed – and the world’s largest Buddhist learning centre – located in a Tibetan County and prefecture in...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 20:  The morning air at the entrance to Tsuglakhang temple here in Dharamshala carried a mixture of mourning and charged momentum. Tibetans in dark clothes, many draped in the colours of the Tibetan national flag,...

 (TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – While members of China’s so-called ethnic Minority groups in the free world, including Tibetans, as well as the international community, have condemned China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law as a tool of forced...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – While even an indication of referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre by ordinary citizens invites instant merciless crackdown, President Xi Jinping has on Aug 17 praised the Communist Party of China (CPC) he heads for...

Dharamshala: A strong sense of solidarity and collective remembrance was evident in Dharamshala this morning as Tibetans from all sections of the community gathered at the Tsuglagkhang courtyard for a special prayer service marking the 49th day since the...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 20 August: The streets of Dharamsala turned into a sea of Tibetan flags on Thursday as thousands marched from the Dalai Lama Temple to the Kachari Police Ground. The event became one of the largest...

The 17th Governing Council of Tibet, Kashag, and the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile on Thursday jointly organised a prayer service at the Dalai Lama Temple in Tsuglagkhang Complex, the main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala, to mark the 49th...

More than 5,000 Tibetans in exile took part in a mass protest march in Dharamshala on Thursday, condemning China's policies in Tibet and demanding the withdrawal of its recently implemented "Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress Law".