Following the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, and in advance of the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Beijing puts ...

Dorje Tashi’s brother and sister targeted in Lhasa, as they are once again denied any prison visitation rights.

Years of advocacy and human rights monitoring paid off at the United Nations today as a record number of countries confronted the Chinese government over its policies in Tibet. The setting was China’s ...

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 ...

In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...

Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that on 9 August, 110 Tibetans who attended a horse racing festival were detained in Janglam Village in Nyanrong County (Tib:གཉན་རོང་རྗོང་།) in ...

The Chinese government has announced plans to forcibly relocate more than one hundred thousand Tibetans from their homes on the Tibetan Plateau in the next eight years. According to Chinese-state ...

His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, is the longest-reigning (and longest-living) Dalai Lama and he may be the last. Revered as a ‘living God’, he has devoted his entire life to the pursuit of humanitarian ...

A communication to the Chinese government by a group of six United Nation human rights experts has been made public, raising concern over the arrest, enforced disappearance and ongoing detention of ...

Tibet Watch has learned of the demolition of a third large Buddhist statue in Drago County. In November 2021, Chinese authorities of Drago County demolished a statue of eighth-century Indian Tantric ...

Tibet Watch has learned that, yesterday, 40-year-old Tsewang Norbu was arrested by police while on a pilgrimage to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. According to external sources contacted by Tibet Watch, ...