• Political prisoner’s early release seen as attempt to avoid detention-related death April 4, 2013 | Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy A long-serving Tibetan political prisoner, Dawa Gyaltsen, now about 47, was released two years earlier than the expected date for exhibiting “good behaviour”, according to information received by TCHRD from exile Tibetan sources having local contacts in Tibet. He was serving an 18-year prison…
  • Tibetan Political Activist Freed After 17 Years in Jail jigme_gyatsoRadio Free Asia | April 2, 2013 A popular Tibetan activist has been freed after serving 17 years in prison with hard labor for seeking independence for Tibet and calling for the long life of Tibet's spirtual leader, the Dalai Lama, according to a Tibetan source. Jigme Gyatso, 52, a former monk, appeared "very weak"…
  • Dhondup Wangchen’s wife launches campaign for Jigme Gyatso Lhamo TsoResearch By Filming for Tibet Concludes That Charges Against Jigme Gyatso Are Baseless Filming for Tibet research, collected with the help of Lhamo Tso, clearly indicates that the charges of manslaughter against Tibetan monk Jigme Gyatso (aka “Golog Jigme”) are baseless. Lhamo Tso, an old friend of Jigme Gyatso, is appealing to the US government and…
  • “Remembering the Missing Monk Golog Jigme” By Tsering Woeser, Tibetan Blogger A week ago, an unknown person with an Amdo Tibetan dialect phoned me to hurriedly tell me that Golog Jigme had maybe been arrested. At the time, I was just passing Ramoche Temple and saw a few Special Police surrounding two young Tibetans, checking their ID cards. “When?” I asked…
  • Confusion grows around missing Tibetan monk filmmaker Not unusually, an already confusing situation in Tibet just got worse. Twenty-seven Tibetans have self-immolated in protest against Chinese this month alone, according to Human Rights Watch. That's almost one a day. Against this chaotic backdrop, Chinese authorities have issued an arrest order for a missing monk who helped film a 2008 documentary about life in…

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