The Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) 2025 report, released on December 10, 2025, documents egregious human rights violations perpetrated by the Chinese state in Tibet, including the mass expulsion of monks from Larung Gar, the closure of Tibetan schools, and the arrest of rights advocates – including the death of Gonpo Namgyal, a language rights advocate who died from torture while in custody.
The report highlights China’s numerous broken promises on human rights, noting that China’s promise of autonomy to Tibetans has yielded “mass detentions and omnipresent surveillance” instead of a system that protects and upholds human rights and Tibet’s unique religious, linguistic, and cultural heritage.
“China is going to extreme lengths to hide the situation in Tibet from the world,” said International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) President Tencho Gyatso. “International media outlets alternate between being banned entirely and being taken on highly choreographe...





