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Tibetan Singer Detained for Dalai Lama Song Released After Six Months in Detention
Tibetan artist, Tsukte (popularly known as Asang), was released on 25 January 2026 after spending nearly 6 months in detention in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) County, Sichuan Province. His release was reportedly accompanied by strict conditions that continue to curtail...
Tibetan Monastic Leader Missing Following Arbitrary Detention in Chumarleb, Yushu
Chinese authorities have reportedly detained Lobsang Lungrik, a Tibetan Buddhist lama and senior religious official in Qinghai province, with his whereabouts remaining unknown since December 2024. Lobsang Lungrik, 51, is the head lama of Ba Gön Monastery, a Gelug...
Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Collective Punishment of Tibetans Opposing Illegal Mining in Kardze
An aerial view of Sekhok (“Gold Valley”) Chinese authorities have arbitrarily detained more than 80 Tibetans from Kashi township, Sershul (Ch: Shiqu) County, Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, eastern Tibet, in retaliation for their peaceful efforts to oppose...
China shuts one of the few remaining Tibetan private schools in Golok, Detains principal
On 4 December, Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained Choktrul Dorje Ten, founder and principal of Dorje Ten National Vocational and Technical School in Chikdril (Ch: Jiuzhi) County, Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of...
TCHRD Statement on Human Rights Day
Human rights empower people to overcome subjugation and oppression. Regardless of who we are, where we live or what we do, we all want the same things: safety, dignity, and freedom,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said...
China Must Probe Mistreatment of Imprisoned Tibetan Entrepreneur Dorje Tashi
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is gravely concerned for imprisoned Tibetan entrepreneur Dorje Tashi, who is serving a life sentence at Drapchi Prison in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), near Lhasa city in the Tibetan province...
Tibetan Democracy-in-Exile Highlighted as a Model of Resilience at Asia Democracy Assembly 2025
Ms Phurbu Dolma, legal officer of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, participated in the Asia Democracy Assembly 2025, held in Bangkok from 1–5 November 2025. Co-hosted by the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) and CIVICUS as part...
UN Experts Demand Answers from China on Tulku Hungkar Dorje’s Death
The United Nations human rights experts have sent a joint communication (AL CHN 15/2025) to the Chinese government, demanding accountability over the death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, abbot of the Lung Ngon Thubten Choekor Ling monastery in Gade (Ch:...
UN Experts Urge Vietnam to Release Information on Death in Custody of Tulku Hungkar Dorje
A group of UN human rights experts issued a joint communication (AL VNM 4/2025) to the Vietnamese government demanding clarity and accountability over the detention, disappearance, and subsequent death in custody of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, a prominent Tibetan spiritual...
Senior Tibetan Monk Arbitrarily Detained and Missing Since 2021 in Lhasa
Chinese authorities have subjected senior Tibetan monk Dhargye, 63, to enforced disappearance following his arbitrary arrest in Lhasa in August 2021. For more than four years, his family has been denied information about his fate or whereabouts. Dhargye, son...
Xi Jinping in Lhasa and the CCP’s Vision of Unity Without Autonomy
Chinese officials and delegates at the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region in Lhasa, 20 August 2025 On 20 August, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, arrived...
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