ICT congratulates the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on successfully holding democratic, free and fair elections on 1 February. In the preliminary election, tens of thousands of Tibetans around the world exercised their fundamental right to determine their own future.
Tibetan singer A-Sang, who was detained twice in 2025, most recently in August for his performance and broadcast of a song commemorating His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, was released from detention on 25 January 2026.
The International Campaign for Tibet welcomes the statement released today by independent UN experts expressing their deep concern about ongoing allegations of state-organized forced labor in China and Tibet.
Many Tibetans have been detained in Kashi township, Sershul County in eastern Tibet following their protest in early November against gold-mining operations at their traditional grazing site known as Serkhok.
Choktrul Dorje Ten Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader, was detained by Chinese authorities around 4 December 2025, under unknown circumstances. He is the founder of the Dorje Ten Ethnic Vocational and Technical High School, a Tibetan-medium instruction school which has now been forcibly closed.
This reports highlights the threats faced by Tibetans in Tibet who celebrate the birthday of their Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and urges the international community — including United Nations bodies, national governments, parliaments, and civil society organizations—to call on China to cease its repressive actions.
The People’s Republic of China’s hydropower and dam projects are increasingly leading to massive human rights violations and environmental damage in Tibet. Since Asia’s largest rivers originate in the Tibetan plateau, the construction of hydroelectric dams in Tibet also threaten the water supply, livelihoods and health of up to 1.8 billion people across China, South and Southeast Asia.
This report shows how the Buddhist Association of China (BAC), a supposedly non-political organization, is becoming a key instrument in the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy to assimilate and transform Tibetan Buddhism – particularly in relation to the search for and recognition of reincarnate lamas.
