Between September and October of 1996, 308 Tibetan women in the sub-district of Takar in Chushur district under Lhasa City were sterilised over a period of 22 days. One woman died after forced…
Nazod Trulku, the spiritual head of Nazod monastery and its 200 monks located in the south of Serta County, was sentenced in August 1996 to six years imprisonment. Reacting to the escalating Chinese…
Lhakpa Tsering, 24 years old, from Toelung Dechen Dzong, near Lhasa, was one of the staff at the Dzong (county) Procuracy Office (the Chinese governmental office responsible for investigating and prosecuting criminal cases),…
Ngawang Pekar was halfway through his eight year sentence in Drapchi Prison when his sentence was extended by six years. Already being punished for his attempts to broaden awareness of the situation in…
China’s mining practices in Tibet reveal a two-way policy: to transfer massive population numbers into Tibet so as to lessen the burden of its own population problems while marginalising Tibetans and to exploit…
A recent report describing the inhumane treatment of prisoners in Chinese prisons in Tibet has been received. The report recounts the case of a pregnant woman who was arrested on suspicion of independence…
In 1995 Lobsang Lungtok, a monk, was arrested for independence activities. After 18 months imprisonment he was expelled from his monastery in April this year. In January 1997 three other monks and one…
Kalsang Dawa, a 29 year old painter from Phenpo, central Tibet, was reported to have died mysteriously in October 1995 while serving his prison sentence in a Chinese prison in Tibet (reported in…
China’s on-going campaign to destroy all physical signs of Tibet’s ancient civilisation is leaving piles of rubble across the land. China’s aim to wipe out all traces of Tibetan religion has seen the…
In an attempt to hide the ongoing birth control policy in the “Tibetan Autonomous Region” (TAR), Chinese health authorities forbid the official use of words relating to birth control. A notice, dated 13…
Tenpa Wangdrak, a 53 year-old former monk of Ganden Monastery, comes from Yartoe Yarzam in Lhoka Nedong County. His parents are no longer living but he has a sister who has occasionally visited…