Tibetan Land Protesters Get Lengthy Jail Terms in Action Against Gansu Slaughterhouse

10 Tibetans drew stiff jail terms at the end of June in China’s Gansu province after trying to obstruct building and construction of a slaughterhouse and requiring settlement for taken land in demonstrations that Chinese authorities stated had “disturbed social order,” RFA has actually discovered. Founded guilty at the end of a two-day trial held […]

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Tibetan Monasteries Closed to Outside Visitors on Dalai Lama’s Birthday

Chinese authorities fanned out throughout Tibetan locations of China over the weekend, warning Tibetan monasteries not to host “outside visitors” throughout the 85 th birthday on July 6 of banished spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a source in exile stated. Locations covered by the restriction consisted of monasteries in western China’s Sichuan and Qinghai provinces, […]

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Taiwan Would Welcome Visit by Tibet’s Dalai Lama, Foreign Ministry Says

Taiwan would welcome a visit by banished Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a foreign ministry representative stated on Monday, including that any invite would be dealt with under “relevant rules” if a demand to visit is gotten. The Dalai Lama is “welcome to come to Taiwan again to propagate the Buddhist teachings,” spokesperson Joanne […]

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China Orders Prayer Flags Taken Down in Tibet in an Assault on Culture, Faith

Chinese authorities in Tibet have actually bought the damage of prayer flags in lots of parts of the area in among China’s most direct attacks to date on noticeable signs of Tibetan culture and faith, sources in the area state. The campaign, referred to as a program of “behavioral reform,” started in June in Qinghai’s […]

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China Expands Its Clampdown in Tibet: Report

China’s clampdown on Tibetan rights and liberties increased throughout in 2015, with a growing usage of monitoring and online tracking to reduce political dissent, and reinforced limitations on Tibetan children’s right to class guideline in their own language, a brand-new report by a Tibet advocacy group stated Tuesday. In spite of growing international condemnation of […]

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Calls Mount in Europe For Reciprocal Access to Tibet

Calls are installing in Europe for member states of the EU to enact legislation requiring that European diplomats, reporters, and scientists be approved access to travel in Tibet, an area mostly limited to outsiders while Chinese nationals can easily take a trip throughout European countries, a Tibet advocacy group stated in a brand-new report on […]

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Tibet’s Environment, Is It Better or Worse?

Claims by China that Tibet under Beijing’s guideline has actually secured and maintained its environment are opposed by miles of mountains scarred by mining and rivers fouled by chemical waste, with Tibetans opposing Chinese mining business’ attacks on their homeland regularly beaten and apprehended, Tibetan sources state. ” Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Area [TAR] stays […]

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Tibetan Students, State Workers Barred From Religious Events in Lhasa

Chinese authorities are carefully seeing civil servant and students in Tibet’s local capital Lhasa throughout the Buddhist holy month of Legend Dawa, prohibiting them from taking part in standard religious events, according to sources in Tibet. Legend Dawa, which falls on the 4th month of the Tibetan lunar calendar and started this year on Might […]

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UN Human Rights Experts Call on China to Free Jailed Tibetan Community Leader

United Nations human rights experts called on China on Tuesday to release and drop charges versus Anya Sengdra, a Tibetan community leader in Qinghai’s Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture now serving a seven-year jail term for grumbling online about corrupt authorities, prohibited mining, and the searching of safeguarded wildlife. ” We are deeply worried by what […]

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