Two Tibetan monks arrested by authorities in western China’s Sichuan province are incommunicado five months after being taken into custody, with family members increasingly worried about their well-being, RFA has learned
Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province arrested a Tibetan college graduate last year for speaking against Chinese policies mandating the teaching of Chinese language in Tibetan areas, RFA has learned
A court in western China’s Sichuan province has sentenced a Tibetan monk to five years in prison for sharing books and teachings by Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, RFA has learned
A Chinese court in Tibet has given a 10-year prison term to a Tibetan writer and educator known for expressing loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, with the sentence handed down in a secret trial, RFA has learned
Han Chinese now outnumber Tibetans in top government posts in Tibet by more than 2-to-1, an indication, Tibetan sources say, of China’s push to dominate the region
China’s 50th anniversary of membership in the United Nations, celebrated this week with a speech by President Xi Jinping claiming that Beijing had “blazed a path in human rights development,” has generated more despair than hope for Tibetans and Uyghurs on the receiving end of Chinese policies, advocates said
Chinese authorities are banning public discussion of a popular Tibetan religious teacher six years after his death in a Sichuan prison, removing him from official religious histories and shutting down an online chat group devoted to his memory, Tibetan sources say
The newly appointed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss in Tibet, a hardline apparatchik under multiple international sanctions for severe human rights abuses in neighboring Xinjiang, is expected to apply to Tibet’s Buddhists the same harsh policies carried out against the Muslims in Xinjiang, Tibetans and experts said
After four months of controversy over the seating of Tibet’s exile parliament, all members of the parliament’s 17th session will now take their oaths of office under the terms of Tibet’s exile charter, following the intervention of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama
Survivors of an earthquake earlier this year in a Tibetan-populated county in northwestern China’s Qinghai say they fear that homes and monasteries demolished in the quake will be rebuilt by authorities in a Chinese style, destroying their traditional Tibetan appearance, sources say