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China’s transnational repression faces global scrutiny across democracies: Report

Beijing: The three cases involving Chinese transnational operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Norway reflect the extensive global reach of Beijing’s campaign of repression aimed at monitoring, harassing, and silencing critics abroad, a report said on Saturday....

State Department reports expose ongoing Chinese repression and urgent need for stronger Tibet law implementation

May 8, 2026 Two reports recently issued by the US State Department confirm the severity of China’s repression in Tibet while also highlighting the need for greater efforts to confront this repression and push for a peaceful resolution to...

Two former Defence ministers of China face life in jail without parole for corruption

(TibetanReview.net, May08’26) – Two recent former Chinese defence ministers of China, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, have been given suspended death sentences after being found guilty of corruption on May 7, the state news agency Xinhua has reported. A...

China confirms helping Pakistan down Indian aircraft last year

(TibetanReview.net, May08’26) – China has confirmed that its J-10CE fighter jets operated by Pakistan shot down at least one French-made Rafale fighter operated by India with the help of its on-site technical support in May last year, according to...

China hands suspended death sentences to former defence ministers

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 8: China has sentenced two former defence ministers, Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe, to suspended death sentences on corruption charges, marking one of the harshest punishments handed to senior military officials under Chinese President Xi...

Apex court registers Case No. 22, Choejor petitioner seek injunction on election results

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 8: The Supreme Justice Commission (SJC), the apex court of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday registered Case No. 22, a legal petition filed by Lobsang Tsering, representing the six monasteries of Nepal’s Choejor...

Tibet Information Office Raises Concerns Over China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” in a Meeting with Human Rights Watch Australia

Canberra: Representative Karma Singey of the Tibet Information Office, accompanied by Dawa Sangmo, Chinese Liaison Officer of the Tibet Information Office, and renowned former Tibetan political prisoner and human rights advocate Golog Jigme, met with Daniela Gavshon, Australia Director...

Southasia Review of Books - 8 May 2026

Hello reader,Books have a way of revealing what states are most afraid of. That felt especially clear over the last few weeks with the Sri Lankan government’s continued detention of multiple titles by the Tamil writer Theepachelvan Piratheepan. Published in...

Earthquake of magnitude 4.1 strikes Tibet

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck Tibet in the early hours of Friday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

US highlights China’s atrocities on Tibetans ahead of President Trump’s visit

(TibetanReview.net, May07’26) – As the US is reportedly expected to raise human rights concerns and Hong Kong’s jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai during President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to China in the coming days, its House Appropriations Committee has,...

European Parliament urges China to repeal “Ethnic Unity” law; ICT President calls on member states for strong and coordinated action in Human Rights S...

May 7, 2026 The European Parliament on April 30 adopted a resolution on China’s new law on “ethnic unity”, expressing grave concern over its impacts for the rights of ethnic groups including Tibetans, and warning its enforcement will carry...

A shared grievance over Britain’s historical sophistry on Tibet’s status

LETTER (TibetanReview.net, May07’26) – Tsering Passang La, thank you for this piece (https://www.tibetanreview.net/as-tibets-veteran-freedom-fighters-pass-the-torch-britain-and-the-world-must-keep-the-cause-alive/). It is informative, instructive, and deeply inspiring. You were my senior by one class at CST Darjeeling; we spoke with each other on innumerable occasions, yet...

Three arrested in connection with murder of Tibetan monk in Karnataka

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 7: Three men have been arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Tibetan Buddhist monk whose body was recovered last week in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, the police said. The case has...

WUC urges Trump to raise Uyghur genocide, human rights concerns during upcoming China visit

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has urged United States President Donald Trump to raise the issue of the Uyghur genocide and press China over alleged human rights abuses during his upcoming visit to China on May 15, which will...

EU hearing raises alarm over China’s ‘Ethnic Unity Law’, warns of forced assimilation of Tibetans and Uyghurs

The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) held a joint public hearing to assess the impact of China's "Ethnic Unity Law" on Tibetans, Uyghurs, and other affected communities,...

Europe, Canada press China over Uyghur repression as WUC intensifies global campaign

During a series of meetings in Belgium and Germany, WUC representatives engaged with European Union officials, Members of the European Parliament, and policymakers from EU member states, urging tougher and more coordinated action against China's policies targeting Uyghurs.

Beijing Faces Fresh EU Scrutiny as Lawmakers Convene A Hearing To Examine Impact of China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” on Tibetans, Uyghurs and Other Targeted...

Brussels, 07 May: Merely a week following the European Parliament’s landmark resolution condemning China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” adopted with an overwhelming majority of 439 votes, the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People’s...

European Parliament Discusses Impact of China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” on Tibetans and Uyghurs

Brussels, 07 May: Merely a week following the European Parliament’s landmark resolution condemning China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” adopted with an overwhelming majority of 439 votes, the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People’s...

Report criticizes China’s linguistic ‘harmonizing’ of Tibetan children

(TibetanReview.net, May06’26) – China is giving the word “harmony” a bad name, using it as as means to obliterate the civilizational identity of Tibet, starting by Sincizing the upbringing of the territory’s pre-school children, according to a 72-page report...

Disenfranchised Choejor Tibetans in Kathmandu suing exile Tibetan election body

(TibetanReview.net, May06’26) – After reversing on May 1 its Apr 23 decision to annul the Choejor (Choeten-Boudha and Jorpati) polling station for the final poll for the Tibetan Parliament in Exile election, the Election Commission of the Central Tibetan...

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming: report

Mumbai: Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute...

HRW report warns China’s preschool policy accelerating erosion of Tibetan language and identity

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 6: A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released on Monday has raised alarm over China’s early childhood education policies in Tibet, warning that recent reforms are rapidly eroding the linguistic and cultural foundations...

China’s “stability” norm entrepreneurship: Taking Tibet repression globally

May 6, 2026 For over seven decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has utilized Tibet as the foundational laboratory for scaling and innovating its internal security apparatus. What initially began as a military occupation has matured into a sophisticated...

China forcing Mandarin education on Tibetan preschoolers to accelerate assimilation, says Human Rights Watch report

The 72-page report, titled Start with the Youngest Children: China Uses Preschools to 'Integrate' Tibetans, outlines that a 2021 directive issued by China's Ministry of Education, known as the Children's Speech Harmonisation plan, requires the use of standard Mandarin...

Human Rights Watch: China Forces Mandarin on Tibetan Preschoolers

A Human Rights Watch report reveals China is erasing Tibetan language and culture by forcing Mandarin instruction and political indoctrination in preschools.