News and Urgent Alerts
Nepal's repatriation of 3 Tibetans leaves UN ‘concerned’ (Phayul)
July 28 | Nepal has forcibly handed over three fleeing Tibetan refugees to Chinese authorities in early June, the United Nations said on Wednesday, adding it was "extremely concerned" by the move.
China tells Nepal to further intensify curbs on Tibetan activities (Phayul)
July 28 | China has announced new financial assistance to Nepal to strengthen security agencies in better monitoring and prevention of Tibetan refugees from engaging in "anti-China activities" on its soil, Nepalese media reported.
Report Criticizes 2008 Chinese Crackdown in Tibet (New York Times)
July 22 | A detailed report by Human Rights Watch says Chinese security forces violated international law in suppressing the Tibetan protests and riots of 2008 by indiscriminately beating, detaining and fatally shooting civilians in towns across the vast Tibetan plateau in western China. Read More ... DOWN LOAD / READ THE FULL REPORT
Tibetan lama deposed for consulting Dalai Lama, monks quit in Nagchu (Phayul)
July 23 | Seventeen Tibetan monks of Shag Rongpo monastery in Nagchu county have been forced to leave their monastery after Chinese authorities turned down their repeated requests not be subjected to patriotic re-education and denunciation of the Dalai Lama on July 17, Ngawang Tharpa, an exile Tibetan with contacts in Nagchu said.
Nepal deports 2 Tibetan refugees: report (Phayul)
July 23 | Breaking the so called "gentleman's agreement" with the United Nations refugee agency in Nepal the Nepalese police have arrested two Tibetans from Nepal’s Humla district and handed them over to Chinese border guards, the Voice of Tibet radio reported.
China tells India to handle Tibet issue cautiously (Phayul)
July 13 | China on Tuesday asked India to "honour its commitments and cautiously handle" issues related to Tibet and Tibetan exiles in India, Chinese state-controlled news agency said.
Indian Foreign Secretary Rao calls on the Dalai Lama (Phayul)
July 10 | India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met with the Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the latter’s residence here, sources said. Rao, former ambassador to China and Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, arrived earlier today from the Indian capital with Gautam Bambawale, joint secretary (East Asia) in the external affairs ministry.
China must halt persecution of award-winning Tibetan environmentalist family (Amnesty International)
July 8 | Amnesty International is calling for the release of three award-winning Tibetan environmental activist brothers, two of whom were recently given lengthy prison sentences within a week of each other.
Dalai Lama Turns 75 (VOA)
Spiritual leader of Tibet addresses crowd of well-wishers in Dharamshala, his adopted hometown in India, where he has lived in exile since 1959.
Tibetans Held After Protest (RFA)
June 22 | A public security officer’s blog confirms reports by residents.
Chinese authorities detained some 30 Tibetans in a remote area of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) after they attacked security vehicles brought in to quell protests over a mine, according to local sources. Read More ...
Tensions Rise in Quake Town (RFA)
Local Tibetans are unhappy with plans to relocate them as part of a reconstruction plan.
June 17 | Hundreds of Tibetan residents of a quake-hit region of China's remote western Qinghai province have been protesting since Monday over attempts by the local government to remove them from their land. Read More ...
Chinese security forces unfurl their secret weapon – the humble umbrella (Telegraph.uk)
June 16 | China’s is backed by some of the best-resourced and most comprehensively manned security services in the world, but when it comes to protecting the dignity of the one-party state there is one weapon that perennially proves useful above all the rest – the umbrella.
3 Tibetan monks arrested in Chamdo's Jomda County (Phayul)
June 12 | China has arrested three monks of Wara Monastery in Thangpu Township, Jomda County (Ch: Jiangda xian) in Chamdo Prefecture, “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) on June 7, 2010, the Voice of Tibet radio reported. Read More ...
China: Drop Charges Against Tibetan Environmental Philanthropist (HRW)
Trumped-Up Case Against Karma Samdrup Follows Imprisonment of Relatives
July 11 | The Chinese government should immediately release two Tibetan environmentalists held on trumped up charges for running an environmental group in their village, and should drop charges made against their brother, Karma Samdrup, after he tried to protest their detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More ...
Sisters Visit Jailed Monk (RFA)
A well-known Tibetan monk is said to be ailing in detention.
July 11 | Two sisters of a prominent Tibetan monk, Tenzin Delek (left), serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail despite an international outcry have visited him the southwestern province of Sichuan, where supporters have repeatedly rallied in his defense. Sisters Visit Jailed Monk Read More ...
Tibetans Protest Over Land (RFA)
June 4 | Scores of Tibetan residents of an earthquake-damaged western Chinese county are protesting local government plans to take possession of choice properties to reconstruct ravaged homes, schools, offices, and other sites, Tibetan sources say. Read More …
Nepal arrests 10 Tibetans for "illegal" entry, Chinese envoy visits: report (Phayul.com)
June 3 | Nepali police have arrested ten Tibetans Wednesday in Nepal’s Dolakha District, Nepalese media reported. The Tibetans, 7 men and 3 women, had entered Nepal through Lamabagar entry point where they were nabbed by Satdobato Police Post in Chartikot. Nepal News reported that the Chinese Ambassador “Qiu Guohang accompanied by the Military Attaché of his Embassy in Kathmandu rushed to the district of Dolakha when they were informed that some ten Tibetans have been arrested by Nepal Police in Chartikot.” Read More ...
Surveillance in Lhasa Hotels (RFA)
May 31 | All guests registering at Lhasa hotels and guesthouses will have their details stored in a police database, and their movements monitored by staff. Read More ...
China sets Tibetan writer free, exiles fear poor health (Phayul.com)
June 2 | China has released from detention a Tibetan student of National Minorities’ University of Lanzhou on May 8, according to Shingsa Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama at Sera monastery in south India. However, he is said to be in a poor physical state after almost a month in detention. Read More ...
Lhasa Court sentences one Tibetan to death and five to lengthy prison terms (TCHRD)
May 26 | Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court sentenced a Tibetan, Sonam Tsering, to death with two years reprieve and five other Tibetans to lengthy imprisonment terms between 3 to 7 years in prison for secretly hiding him from the law enforcement agencies. Read More ...
Tibetan writer faces second arrest in 13 months (Phayul.com)
May 25 | A Tibetan writer who was briefly arrested in March last year has been arrested again on Monday. Dokru Tsuiltrim was detained from Gomang monastery in Ngaba County. His friend Kalsang Tsultrim, native of Bazong (spelled as pronounced) was arrested last Thursday (May 20). Read More ...
Chinese Authorities Clamp Down on Protest School (Tibet Post)
May 22 | Chinese officials say they have blocked the display of photos of the 10th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choephel and Dhondup Gyal in classrooms. Students are now forbidden to pray or to keep Rosary (prayer beads), while books and other material with religious content have been banned. Read More ...
Chinese engineers propose world's biggest hydro-electric project in Tibet (Guardian.uk)
Any step forward is likely to be controversial. Tibetans consider Metog a sacred region, and environmental activists warn against building such a huge project in a seismically active and ecologically fragile area
Handle Tibet and Taiwan with care, China warns US (Phayul.com)
China on Monday asked the United States to “respect its core interests and major concerns, and to pay particular attention to handling sensitive issues such as those
Wang Lixiong's interview with Dalai Lama on Twitter (Phayul.com)
Following is an English translation (from the Tibetan) of Wang Lixiong’s interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 21 May 2010. Wang Lixiong’s Twitter postings were based on this interview.
Wang informed His Holiness that he had invited people to submit their questions on Google Moderator and also to vote on their preferred questions. He said altogether there were 1253 people who posed 289 questions with 12473 votes revealing preferences and their results are the questions that he be posed to His Holiness.
Press Release from Dhondup Wangchen's Family.
Detained Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen Transferred to Xichuan Prison; Family Calls for International Intervention for His Release.
Zurich, May 19, 2010: Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen who was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment on 28 December 2009 for "subversion of state power", has been transferred from his previous detention centre in Xining to a labor camp [1] both in Western China's Qinghai Province. Wife and family members of Dhondup Wangchen called today on Hillary Clinton who is going to China next week to press the Chinese government to release those who are arbitrarily imprisoned for political reasons.
Lhasa to tighten rules for copy shops (eTaiwan News)
May 19 | Residents in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa will soon have to register their names if they want to make photocopies, in an apparent government bid to deter separatists from printing pamphlets. Read More ...
2 Tibetans arrested in Sertha for protest (Phayul.com)
May 19 | Two Tibetans have been arrested Sunday night (May 16) by Chinese police in Sertha County, Sertha Choeying, a Tibetan originally from Sertha now residing here has said. Read More ...
China arrest six monks in early morning raids in Jomda (TCHRD)
May 19 | Four monks of Wara Monastery in Thangpu Township, Jomda County (Ch: Jiangda xian) in Chamdo Prefecture, “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) were arrested last Saturday (15 May) under suspicion of leading and instigating protest at the county headquarters in Spring 2008 and two other official monks of the same monastery were arrested on Sunday. Read More ...
Police open fire at Tibetans protesting cement factory pollution (ICT)
May 17 | Police opened fire on Tibetans at a cement factory in the Tibetan area of Amdo (Labrang in Gansu) on Saturday (May 15) after local villagers, worried about pollution from the factory, started to rebuild a road that had been closed by the expansion of the factory. Fifteen people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds or injuries from beatings by police, although no one was killed, according to an exile Tibetan source in contact with Tibetans in the area. Read More ...
Teacher jailed for 15 years in widening repression at schools in Tibet (Tibtan Review)
May 17 | A Tibetan primary school teacher arrested in mid-2008 by the Chinese intelligence in Nagchu Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region had been sentenced to a 15-year jail term in Jan’10 for her alleged involvement in political activities, reported the exile Tibetan government on its website Tibet.net May 15. Read More ...
Five injured as villagers renew mine protests in Markham (Phayul.com)
May 15 | At least five protesters, including two women, were injured as thousands of Tibetan villagers in Markham County in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have renewed protests against mining operations on mountains they consider sacred, despite strong presence by armed Chinese police, RFA has reported, citing sources in the region.
A lone protester calling for proper allocation of earthquake relief arrested (TCHRD)
May 3 | An exile Tibetan returnee was arrested yesterday for staging a solo protest in front of Tsuglakhang in Lhasa, according to confirmed information received from reliable sources by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). Samdup Gyatso, a 28-year-old was arrested by around seven Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials during his brief solo protest in front of Tsuglakhang temple in Lhasa yesterday.
Machu middle school students go on hunger strike, demand sacked teachers' reinstatement (Phayul)
May 3 | Tibetan students of Machu Tibetan Nationality Middle School in Machu County in Gansu Province (traditionally in Tibet's Amdo Province), have been sitting on a hunger strike from April 22 demanding the release from detention of a Tibetan teacher and reinstatement of him and two others sacked by the authorities over protests by students in the school, Dolkar Kyab, a researcher and native of Machu currently living here, said.
2010-04-26
Tibetan writer Zhogs Dung held for organising Yushu quake donations (Times Online)
The leading Tibetan intellectual, a writer, publisher and philosopher long seen as close to China’s ruling Communist Party, has been arrested after organising private donations for this month’s earthquake.
Tra Gyal, better known by his penname of Zhogs Dung, was detained at 5.30pm on Friday in Xining, capital of the western province of Qinghai where the April 14 tremor killed more than 2,000 people, Tibetan sources said. Read More ...
Related: Earthquake in Tibet, Leading Tibetan Intellectual "Shog Dung" Detained in Xining (High Peaks Pure Earth)
Quake survivors see hope in Dalai Lama visit request (AFP)
JIEGU - Lhamo Yongsuo's black dress matches the mood in China's northwest quake-hit region where nearly 1,500 have died, but upon seeing the Dalai Lama's image the Tibetan woman brightens.
On the streets of Jiegu, the nearest big city to the epicentre of the 6.9 magnitude quake, conversation buzzed on Sunday about the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's request to Beijing to let him visit the disaster area.
A petition addressed to China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao was received today by the Chinese-language website boxun.com, appealing for the Dalai Lama to be allowed to visit Tibet "to offer salvation for our dead and prayers for the victims". (http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2010/04/201004160551.shtml). The Tibetan Prime Minister in exile, the Kalon Tripa, said today that the Dalai Lama would naturally wish to visit the earthquake-hit Tibetan area of Kyegundu, Kham, in present-day Qinghai, where hundreds of people have died after a quake of 6.9 magnitude struck on Wednesday (April 14). (Statement on www.tibet.net, the website of the Tibetan government in exile).
Related News:
-> His Holiness the Dalai Lama Eager to Visit Earthquake Affected Area (dalailama.com)
-> Death Toll in Kyigudo's Quake Rises to 1,144 (VOA)
To Help:
To help the people of the area affected by the earthquake please make a donation to one of the following oranisations working in the region helping to support the emergency relief efforts:
Tibetan Village Project: http://www.tibetanvillageproject.org/ (Note: you can also donate via Causes at: http://www.causes.com/causes/472609)
Tibet Relief Fund: http://www.tibetrelieffund.co.uk/
Machik: http://www.machik.org/index.php
Tibet Foundation: http://www.tibet-foundation.org/news/urgent_emergency_appeal_-_kyekudo_y...
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