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The People’s Republic of China is rapidly modernizing satellite television infrastructure in Tibet that will serve to strengthen China’s monopoly on information in Tibet.

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.

The December 10th observation of International Human Rights Day this year was marked by comments in support of Tibet by delegates from six countries and a statement from the European Union. The Central Tibetan Administration published a statement, and speakers in the United Kingdom’s House of Commons raised the Tibet issue as well.

Dorjee Tashi, a 51-year-old Tibetan businessman and philanthropist currently serving a life sentence inside Lhasa’s notorious Drapchi Prison (formally known as Tibet Autonomous Region Prison #1), has been assaulted repeatedly by fellow inmates, according to credible information received by the International Campaign for Tibet

On the occasion of Human Rights Days, the International Campaign for Tibet released a new report “Beyond Neither Goat nor Sheep,” which details the Chinese government’s systematic policies to erase the use of the Tibetan language and separate Tibetans from their linguistic heritage

According to information only now confirmed by sources, A-Sang, a Tibetan singer in his 20s from Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Sichuan province), in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo, was rearrested in August 2025, following his release after his first arrest on 8 July 2025.