24 results
25 April 2025 marks the 36th birthday of the Panchen Lama, who has remained under continued detention by Chinese authorities since 1995, only for being recognized by the Dalai Lama as a prominent Tibetan Buddhist master. His situation concretely symbolizes China’s abuse of Tibetan religious freedom and tradition.
Multiple UN Special Rapporteur made public a joint communication to the Chinese government related to the summoning and interrogation of environmental human rights defender Tsongon Tsering and his subsequent detention.
Prominent Tibetan environmentalist and philanthropist, Karma Samdrup, who has been serving a 15 year prison sentence, has been released upon completion of term.
Chinese authorities detained prominent Tibetan language rights activist Tashi Wangchuk on 20 October 2024, for his language rights activism on Chinese social media platforms.
For more than two years, a Tibetan woman named Gonpo Kyi has been seeking the release of her falsely accused brother, Dorjee Tashi. Last month a Chinese court ruled against her, putting justice for her younger brother even further out of reach.
Today, the Panchen Lama, one of the most important leaders in Tibetan Buddhism, turns 35. But given his continued detention by Chinese authorities since 1995, rather than being able to celebrate this milestone birthday with him, his followers and supporters around the globe are using the opportunity to demand that China’s government free him. Gedhun […]
Undeterred by multiple detentions, police manhandling and other forms of cruel treatment, Gonpo Kyi staged a sit-in again on 20 February 2024 in front of the Higher People’s Court of the Tibet Autonomous Region in Lhasa, seeking justice for her brother, Dorjee Tashi, who is serving a life sentence in Drapchi Prison.
Chinese police have taken into custody Gonpo Kyi and her husband, Choekyong, after they staged a protest for justice in front of the Tibet Autonomous Region Higher People’s Court on 13 December, according to credible sources.
Former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk was detained and beaten by Chinese police earlier this month after he posted a video showing government officials denying him a license for his new business.
In a recently published personal account, Tibetan language rights activist and ex-political prisone Tashi Wangchuk describes how a group of masked men attacked him in the night of 19 August 2023 in his hotel room.