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As Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Lhasa this month, Tibetan activists and individuals perceived by the authorities as undermining the state’s image have faced restrictions on their movement or have been barred from entering Lhasa. The ordeal faced by the family of imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi exemplifies the broader climate of heightened security and control.

Le mercredi 20 août, dans un contexte de sécurité renforcée et de répression accrue, le dirigeant chinois Xi Jinping est arrivé à Lhassa, la capitale du Tibet, pour assister à une cérémonie marquant le 60e anniversaire de la création de la soi-disant « Région autonome du Tibet » par le gouvernement chinois.

Amid tightened security and increased repression, on 20 August, Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, to attend a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the so called “Tibet Autonomous Region” by the Chinese government.

The International Campaign for Tibet is organizing an important panel on 27 August during the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, one of the world’s leading conferences on water policy and sustainability.

9 September 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of an entity labeled as “Tibet Autonomous Region”, a province-level administrative division in the People’s Republic of China which encompasses merely roughly half of Tibet. While Chinese state media is striking a predictably upbeat tone on the anniversary, the reality is that Tibetans have little to celebrate.

The International Campaign for Tibet on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, actively participated in the 59th session of the UN Huùan Rights Council in Geneva, highlighting the deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet through multiple avenues, including oral statements and a public side event.

Yesterday, in Leh, Ladakh, President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel was received in a special audience by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and held meetings with Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Sikyong Penpa Tsering and other members of the CTA.

Dans une lettre ouverte aux députés français publiée le 23 juillet 2025, plusieurs ONG dont ICT ont exprimé leur vive préoccupation face aux graves omissions d’un rapport d’information de l’Assemblée nationale sur les relations entre l’Union européenne et la Chine.

On 8 July, the Chinese government released Tibetan environmental activist Tsongon Tsering, a 30-year-old Tibetan from Tsaruma Township, Kyungchu County, Ngaba and Qiang Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan, who spoke out about illegal sand mining on the ecosystem of the Dangchu River, a tributary of the Yellow River.

In recent days, two senior officials handpicked by the Chinese Communist Party to head the leadership in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have been prosecuted for misuse of funds exposing the deep ties between corruption and repression in Tibet.