The Chinese government is refusing to issue visas to thousands of Hindus seeking to make the traditional summer pilgrimage to a Tibetan mountain said to be the home of Lord Shiva. The Indian foreign ministry, which is working with Chinese… Read moreChina blocks Hindu pilgrims from Tibet
From the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, May 19: The Chinese authorities had arrested a revered religious figure in Kardze, Tibet according to reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
Some 300 Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist monks and nuns, tried to storm the Chinese Embassy in Nepal May 8, kicking the metal gates and throwing banners inside the fortified compound before police pushed them back. More than 200 were… Read more200 Tibetan protesters arrested in Nepal
A court in Tibet sentenced 30 people to prison terms ranging from three years to life April 29 in charges related to the March uprising. (NYT, April 30) China has detained scores of Buddhist monks over the past month, according… Read moreTibet: sweeps continue at monasteries
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur Muslim, at Guantanamo Bay in oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit April 4. The US claims Parhat… Read moreUS defends detention of Uighurs at Gitmo; China defends detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang
Tibetan activists—chanting “Reject China’s bloody torch,” “Olympics in China, torture in Tibet” and “We will never give up”—are gathering daily at midday at San Francisco’s Civic Center in what has essentially become a protest campaign to demand their right to… Read moreTibetans wage free speech struggle in San Francisco
Days after the harsh crackdown on protests in Lhasa, Chinese authorities are now arresting hundreds of Tibetans elsewhere in Tibet and Tibetan regions of neighboring Gansu and Sichuan provinces. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy reports that in… Read moreTibet: 1,000 arrested, hundreds “disappeared”
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua March 16 quoted the 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu harshly condemning the Tibetan uprising: “The rioters’ acts not only harmed the interests of the nation and the people, but also violated the aim of… Read moreBeijing-groomed Buddhists diss Dalai Lama
While little news is now coming out of Lhasa, the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that at least three Tibetan protesters were shot dead by Chinese security forces March 18 during a peaceful demonstration in Kardze… Read moreTibetan protests continue; Dalai Lama calls for coexistence
