News

Letter reaffirms that the Gaden Phodrang Trust has the sole authority to recognise the reincarnation of future Dalai Lamas.
The head of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery is in critical condition after his imprisonment following peaceful protests against ...
For Tibetans, the name ‘Xizang’ is nothing short of offensive. It is colonial language that builds upon the perception China is trying to enforce, that Tibet is and always has been a part of China, ...
The process of selecting the Dalai Lama would traditionally involve the Panchen Lama – the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama’s teacher. However, in 1995 the 11th Panchen Lama was kidnapped by the ...
China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...
Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan political prisoner, Tsultrim Gyatso, was handed a six-month reduction of his prison sentence in April last year. The ruling by the ...
This is more than double the 11 recommendations on Tibet issued by nine states at China’s last UPR in 2018, and a massive increase on the four states that raised Tibet at China’s first UPR in 2009.
For a second time, Tower Hamlets Council has unanimously voted against China’s plans for a super embassy in the London borough. After hearing from residents and the Metropolitan Police, and taking ...
The persecution of Tibetan Buddhists and the threats to Tibet’s future were discussed on Thursday in a debate by MPs at Westminster Hall. During the 90-minute discussion, MPs raised a range of ...
News related to the policy’s implementation first emerged in August 2021 when a 19-year-old student in Ngaba was arrested after he refused to attend a propaganda meeting called “Meeting on Praising ...
Taphun died after being taken away by the police but it is still not known where they took him, and the circumstances leading up to his death are unclear. His body has not been returned to his family, ...