Rachung was jailed for sending prayer money to Tibetan exile monasteries to pray his late uncle who died from self ...

Gonpo Namgyal was released from custody in mid November. He died at his home two days later on 18 November. Extensive burns ...

Tibet Watch has learned that former political detainee Tsering Tso was held in administrative detention in late November and released last week. Tsering Tso was detained on 29 November in Trika County ...

Over the weekend, Nanhai Buddhism Shenzhen Roundtable took place in Nepal. 220 Chinese Buddhist monks arrived on a chartered flight for the Chinese-organised Buddhist events in Kathmandu and Lumbini.

For a second time, Tower Hamlets Council has unanimously voted against China’s plans for a super embassy in the London borough. After hearing from residents and the Metropolitan Police, and taking ...

Spread among the hills in Serta County in Kardze, eastern Tibet, Larung Gar Buddhist Institute is the largest and one of the most significant sites in Tibetan Buddhism. It was established in 1980 and ...

Green transport in one place should not come at the cost of environmental and social damage in another. For the people of Tibet, this is a real threat with the extraction of lithium for use in ...

Since March 2009, more than 150 people are known to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet to protest against the repressive Chinese occupation. Self-immolation protests peaked in 2012 when more ...

Armed police march through the streets of Dege County, in a crackdown against the voices of the Tibetan people. The final vestiges of self-determination stripped away from Tibetan communities, as ...

Imagine being snatched from the street or even your home. You are loaded into a police car and driven to an unknown location. Your friends, colleagues and family don’t know where you are. Nor do you.