Chinese authorities now maintain a tight grip on Tibet and on Tibetan-populated regions of western Chinese provinces, restricting Tibetans’ political activities and peaceful expression of cultural and religious identities, and subjecting Tibetans to imprisonment, torture, and extrajudicial killings
Tashi Rongbu, a member of the Standing Committee for the Tawu county Party Committee, and an official named Choetha, deputy head of the county government, had permitted funerals and other public gatherings to be held in Tawu, “causing adverse social impacts,” a People’s Daily report said on Feb. 25
The library’s decision to take down the exhibition show that “activism and truth are more powerful than propaganda and dictatorship,” said Dorjee Tseten, executive director of the advocacy group Students for a Free Tibet, one of the groups participating in the protest
Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Sichuan’s Tawu county are continuing to climb, with three new cases reported on Wednesday bringing the total to 60, all of them ethnic Tibetans, sources in the region say
Restrictions on Yachen Gar and the better-known Larung Gar complex in Sichuan’s Serthar (Seda) county are part of “an unfolding political strategy” aimed at controlling the influence and growth of these important centers for Tibetan Buddhist study and practice, a Tibetan advocacy group said in a March 2017 report
The suspected carrier, identified only by his surname Zhang, arrived in Lhasa by train on Jan. 24 and is currently medically isolated and under observation, according to a notice on Wednesday by the city’s Municipal Health Committee
The China Tibet Broadcasting website reported that as of Jan 27, Sichuan confirmed 90 cases of coronavirus, Yunnan reported 26, Gansu reported 19 positive tests, and Qinghai identified six cases. Four of the Gansu patients were in critical condition, it said
While anti-gang campaigns are being carried out across Tibetan regions of China, these are often used as an excuse to suppress environmental activists or ordinary Tibetans promoting use of the Tibetan language or combating corruption in local government, sources told RFA in earlier reports
A worldwide network of Tibetan Buddhist centers founded by a senior abbot of the Larung Gar Academy in China’s Sichuan province has been closed down, with followers suspecting Chinese pressure behind the move
Anya Sengdra, a resident of Kyangche township in Gade (in Chinese, Gande) county in the Golog (Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was widely respected in his community for his campaigns, London-based Free Tibet said in a statement