A source told Tibet Watch, “The county authorities forcibly declared that there will be no Buddhist primary school in ...

Palden participation in the December 2022 contest brought him widespread renown and admiration from across Tibet. He became ...

Thubten Yeshi, a Tibetan farmer and former political prisoner, passed away on 28 September in Lhasa at the age of 74.

The sister of political detainee Dorjee Tashi has been beaten, threatened and detained during her protests for her brother’s ...

Jampa Choepel was arrested at his monastery after an online post about Dalai Lama, sentenced to a year and half in prison ...

A former librarian of the renowned Kirti Monastery has been sentenced in a secret trial to three years in prison after being ...

China invaded Tibet in 1950. Inside its borders and across the world, Tibetans have never stopped believing Tibet is a nation. After more than 70 years of occupation, Tibetans still resist China’s ...

“From a legal standpoint, Tibet has to this day not lost its statehood. It is an independent state under illegal occupation.” – Michael van Walt, lawyer and professor at the Institute for Advanced ...

The Chinese government has a plan for Tibet’s children: if it gets its own way, the next generation will grow up loyal to the CCP, and strangers to Tibet. Thousands of Tibetans in Tibet are being ...

Tibet is located to the southwest of China, also bordering India, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma) and Bhutan. Tibet’s three original provinces are U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo. The people in these regions all ...

Since March 2009, more than 150 people are known to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet to protest against the repressive Chinese occupation. Self-immolation protests peaked in 2012 when more ...

For the last six years in a row, US think-tank Freedom House has ranked Tibet among the worst places in the world for civil rights and political freedom. Under the Chinese Communist Party, nobody is ...