Chinese authorities are implementing a new wave of demolitions at one of the world’s largest Buddhist institutes, Larung Gar in eastern Tibet Source

Once home to a 99-foot Buddha statue in Sengdeng Village, the sacred site has been converted since 2023 into a racecourse. Source

Zhang Yi, a former student leader at Tiananmen Square who was later imprisoned and tortured, is being held at the Lhasa Detention Centre. Source

The developments are part of a broader context of indoctrination of children in schools and intensified militarisation as part of China’s ‘Sinicisation’ policy. Source

Sakkar Tashi, a Tibetan refugee living in Belgium since 2004, remains one of the most widely followed Tibetans on social media. Source

Chinese police of Labrang Township in Sangchu County took into custody Jamyang Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk from Labrang Tashikhyil Monastery. Source

Tibet Watch has documented a cluster of cases from across Tibet that reveal an intensifying pattern of repression targeting Tibetans for acts that belong to the ordinary cultural, religious and intellectual life of a Tibetan community. Source

Eight UN experts have called on China to account for new legislation that escalates Xi Jinping's campaign of forced assimilation in Tibet and extends its reach beyond PRC borders. Source

Lama Chime Tulku Rinpoche, was one of the first Tibetan lamas to settle in Britain. Source

A Tibetan Buddhist monk who disappeared for five years has been sentenced to seven years in prison, apparently for his devotion to the Dalai Lama, Tibet Watch has learned. Source