Orignal post by Phayul, 7 June 2014 Chinese authorities in Lithang have prevented local Tibetans from holding a prayer for the long life and welfare of jailed Tibetan spiritual leader Tulku Tenzin Delek on June 2. Tibetans including monks and laypeople...

Beijing Turns Away Foreign Governments’ Appeals to Free High-Profile Detainees A report by Wall Street Journal – See original post BEIJING—When European and Chinese diplomats met last year for their annual, often fraught discussion on human rights, the European Union side...

Dhondup Wangchen, after six years in prison, thanks his family, friends and supporters for their tireless efforts and hopes to see them soon. Reproduced Press Release originally posted by Filming For Tibet Dharamsala | Zurich | San Francisco, June 5,...

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...

Radio 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...

Research 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....

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...

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...

by Tenzin Jigme, 1 August 2012 Today in 2007 a Tibetan nomad who was attending a famous horse race festival made an impromptu speech that resonated deeply with ordinary Tibetans while rattling the Chinese official nerves at the same time....

Lobsang Tenzin, a courageous born-leader languishing in a Chinese prison since 1988,  has continued to fight a lone battle against the might of China’s iron-fist rule in Tibet; today, after nearly quarter of a century in captivity, his body is...