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Tensions Rise in Quake Town (RFA)
Local Tibetans are unhappy with plans to relocate them as part of a reconstruction plan.
June 17 | Hundreds of Tibetan residents of a quake-hit region of China’s remote western Qinghai province have been protesting since Monday over attempts by the local government to remove them from their land. Read More …
3 Tibetan monks arrested in Chamdo’s Jomda County (Phayul)
June 12 – China has arrested three monks of Wara Monastery in Thangpu Township, Jomda County (Ch: Jiangda xian) in Chamdo Prefecture, “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) on June 7, 2010, the Voice of Tibet radio reported. Read More …
China: Drop Charges Against Tibetan Environmental Philanthropist (HRW)
Trumped-Up Case Against Karma Samdrup (left) Follows Imprisonment of Relatives
July 11 | The Chinese government should immediately release two Tibetan environmentalists held on trumped up charges for running an environmental group in their village, and should drop charges made against their brother, Karma Samdrup, after he tried to protest their detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More …
Sisters Visit Jailed Monk (RFA)
A well-known Tibetan monk is said to be ailing in detention.
July 11 | Two sisters of a prominent Tibetan monk, Tenzin Delek (left), serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail despite an international outcry have visited him the southwestern province of Sichuan, where supporters have repeatedly rallied in his defense. Read More …
Tibetans Protest Over Land (RFA)
June 4 | Scores of Tibetan residents of an earthquake-damaged western Chinese county are protesting local government plans to take possession of choice properties to reconstruct ravaged homes, schools, offices, and other sites, Tibetan sources say. Read More …
China sets Tibetan writer free, exiles fear poor health (Phayul.com)
June 2 | China has released from detention a Tibetan student of National Minorities’ University of Lanzhou on May 8, according to Shingsa Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama at Sera monastery in south India. However, he is said to be in a poor physical state after almost a month in detention.
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Lhasa Court sentences one Tibetan to death and five to lengthy prison terms (TCHRD)
Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court sentenced a Tibetan, Sonam Tsering, to death with two years reprieve and five other Tibetans to lengthy imprisonment terms between 3 to 7 years in prison for secretly hiding him from the law enforcement agencies. Read More …
Tibetan writer faces second arrest in 13 months (Phayul.com)
May 25 | A Tibetan writer who was briefly arrested in March last year has been arrested again on Monday. Dokru Tsuiltrim was detained from Gomang monastery in Ngaba County. His friend Kalsang Tsultrim, native of Bazong (spelled as pronounced) was arrested last Thursday (May 20).
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Chinese Authorities Clamp Down on Protest School (Tibet Post)
May 22 | Chinese officials say they have blocked the display of photos of the 10th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choephel and Dhondup Gyal in classrooms. Students are now forbidden to pray or to keep Rosary (prayer beads), while books and other material with religious content have been banned. Read More …
Press Release from Dhondup Wangchen’s Family.
Detained Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen Transferred to Xichuan Prison; Family Calls for International Intervention for His Release.
Zurich, May 19, 2010: Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen who was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment on 28 December 2009 for “subversion of state power”, has been transferred from his previous detention centre in Xining to a labor camp [1] both in Western China’s Qinghai Province. Wife and family members of Dhondup Wangchen called today on Hillary Clinton who is going to China next week to press the Chinese government to release those who are arbitrarily imprisoned for political reasons. Read More …
2 Tibetans arrested in Sertha for protest (Phayul.com)
May 19 | Two Tibetans have been arrested Sunday night (May 16) by Chinese police in Sertha County, Sertha Choeying, a Tibetan originally from Sertha now residing here has said. Read More …
China arrest six monks in early morning raids in Jomda (TCHRD)
May 19 | Four monks of Wara Monastery in Thangpu Township, Jomda County (Ch: Jiangda xian) in Chamdo Prefecture, “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) were arrested last Saturday (15 May) under suspicion of leading and instigating protest at the county headquarters in Spring 2008 and two other official monks of the same monastery were arrested on Sunday. Read More …
Police open fire at Tibetans protesting cement factory pollution (ICT)
May 17 | Police opened fire on Tibetans at a cement factory in the Tibetan area of Amdo (Labrang in Gansu) on Saturday (May 15) after local villagers, worried about pollution from the factory, started to rebuild a road that had been closed by the expansion of the factory. Fifteen people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds or injuries from beatings by police, although no one was killed, according to an exile Tibetan source in contact with Tibetans in the area. Read More …
Teacher jailed for 15 years in widening repression at schools in Tibet (Tibtan Review)
May 17 | A Tibetan primary school teacher arrested in mid-2008 by the Chinese intelligence in Nagchu Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region had been sentenced to a 15-year jail term in Jan’10 for her alleged involvement in political activities, reported the exile Tibetan government on its website Tibet.net May 15.
Lhamo Kyab was taken into custody from a primary school at Driru (Chinese: Biru) County on the third day of her having joined it. She was taken to her home in Nagchu County which the officials raided and searched. She was taken to a secret detention centre in Sangyib, in the outskirts of Lhasa, where she kept on being interrogated until the time of her sentencing. Read More …
Villagers Renew Mine Protests (RFA)
May 12 | Tibetan villagers in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of western China have renewed protests against mining operations on mountains they consider sacred, despite a strong presence by armed Chinese police, according to Tibetan sources in the region. Read More
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A lone protester calling for proper allocation of earthquake relief arrested (TCHRD)
May 3 | An exile Tibetan returnee was arrested yesterday for staging a solo protest in front of Tsuglakhang in Lhasa, according to confirmed information received from reliable sources by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). Samdup Gyatso, a 28-year-old was arrested by around seven Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials during his brief solo protest in front of Tsuglakhang temple in Lhasa yesterday. Read More …
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Machu middle school students go on hunger strike, demand sacked teachers’ reinstatement (Phayul)
Dharamsala, May 3 | Tibetan students of Machu Tibetan Nationality Middle School in Machu County in Gansu Province (traditionally in Tibet’s Amdo Province), have been sitting on a hunger strike from April 22 demanding the release from detention of a Tibetan teacher and reinstatement of him and two others sacked by the authorities over protests by students in the school, Dolkar Kyab, a researcher and native of Machu currently living here, said. Read More …
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More than thirty Tibetan Primary Students detained, one expelled in Sertha County after protest (TCHRD)
April 15 | More than thirty students of Khar Primary School in Sertha County were detained by the Chinese security forces following minor stone throwing incident that took place after security forces paraded monks in various places around the county. The names of the monks cannot be confirmed at the moment. Read More …
China arrests monk after protest in Nyarong County (TCHRD)
Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials in Nyagrong County (Ch: Xinlong xian), Kardze “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (‘TAP’) in Sichuan Province have arrested a Tibetan monk named Abo Tashi, a 22-year-old of Guru Monastery, for his participation and taking photographs during a protest rally on 8 April 2010, according to information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). Read More …
3 sentenced upto 13 years in Ngaba County in Tibet (Phayul)
A Chinese court in Ngaba County in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo has sentenced three Tibetans to varying prison terms on Friday (April 9, 2010), according to a press release issued by the Kirti monastery’s Emergency Coordination Committee here.
Tibetan Monk Detained (RFA)
April 9 | Machu county monks get a warning, a month after student protests there. Authorities in China’s western Gansu province have detained a monk for allegedly accessing banned media content and maintaining contact with exiled Tibetans, a month after student protests there prompted several firings, Tibetan sources say. Read More …
China arrests three monks, closes school in Qinghai (TCHRD)
Three monks of Ditsa Monastery including a reincarnated lama was arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Chinese security forces under suspicion of their involvement in pasting political pamphlets in the monastery on March 14. Read More…
Tibetans sentenced to lengthy prison terms (RFA)
According to court paper smuggled out from Tibet, Tibetan singer, Tashi Dhondup, 30, was sentenced to 15 months for singing songs that supported Tibetans independence and the Dalai Lama.
A second document from the trial in Gansu province of a Tibetan monk convicted in connection with a 2008 region-wide uprising against Chinese rule paints a detailed picture of the case made against him. The monk, Thabkhe Gyatso was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in the March 14, 2008 protest in Labrang. Read More
U.S. State Department Finds “Severe Repression” in Tibet
In a clear rebuke of official Chinese claims, the U.S. Department of State has provided a catalogue of human rights abuses and economic, social and cultural discrimination faced by Tibetans under Chinese rule. The findings are contained in the Tibet section of the State Department’s “Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2009, ” released today in Washington, D.C.
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China says missing Panchen Lama is living in Tibet (AP)
A boy who disappeared after being named Tibetan Buddhism’s second-highest figure by the Dalai Lama is living with his family somewhere in Tibet, the Himalayan region’s Chinese-appointed governor said Sunday. Read More
China detains hundreds of Tibetans in Lhasa under “Strike Hard Campaign” (TCHRD)
With the launch of “Strike Hard” Campaign in the “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) from 2nd March, the Chinese security forces had detained nearly 500 Tibetans alone from Lhasa city alone, according to reports given in the state run web portal.
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Related: China launches “Strike Hard” Campaign ahead of sensitive anniversary (TCHRD)
A Tibetan sentenced to suspended death sentence, two others to life and 16 years in prison in Nyarong (TCHRD)
Three Tibetans; Pema Yeshi, 28, Sonam Gonpo, 24, and Tsewang Gyatso a.k.a Tsok Tsok, 32, all from Thangkyi Township, Nyarong County, Kardze “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” (‘TAP’) Sichuan Province, were sentenced by the Kardze Intermediate People’s Court on 17 November 2009 to two-year suspended death sentence, life imprisonment and 16 years term respectively on charges of “inciting separatism” and “disturbing social order.” Read More
Tibetans celebrate Dalai Lama meeting with President Obama despite crackdown
In a second day of celebration, on February 18, Tibetans defied intense security by chanting prayers and setting off fireworks in the Amdo area of Tibet, where the Dalai Lama was born, marking his meeting with President Obama that day. Read More
Tension across Tibet as Tibetans mark New Year with prayers for the dead (ICT)
Several hundred Tibetan monks and laypeople in the far eastern Tibetan area of Ngaba (Sichuan province) were surrounded by armed troops yesterday on the first of the five-day Tibetan New Year festival (Losar). The Tibetans had gathered together to pray for those killed in the crackdown following protests across Tibet that began in March 2008. Read More…
Tibetan singer sentenced to over a year’s imprisonment for “subversive songs” (Phayul.com)
January 30 – A Chinese court in Sogpo Mongol Autonomous County, Malho Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, has sentenced a Tibetan singer, Tashi Dondrup to one year and seven months’ jail term for producing a music album with “subversive songs”. Authorities banned his album titled “Torture without Trace” in November last year. He had been held at a detention centre in Sog County. Read More…
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen for 6 Years(Tibet.net)
Dhondup Wangchen, the Tibetan filmmaker who was arrested by the Chinese government for documenting the current situation in Tibet and Tibetan people’s aspiration for return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet, has been sentenced to six years in prison, according to information received by the Central Tibetan Administration.
The sentence was pronounced on 28 December 2009, according to the report. But it is not known where the filmmaker was tried. Read More…
