About four years ago, an airport was built in Kyishong sub-district in Lhoka County. Kyishong is one of the best known places in Tibet for excellent harvests and many Tibetans in this area…
Thupten Soepa is from Rame Kyishong town in Lhoka Gongkar county and was a monk at Rame monastery. Thupten reports that on 1 March, 1997, an eight-member work team arrived at the monastery.…
In a collective trial held by the Intermediate People’s Court of the “Tibet Autonomous Region ” on 30 November 1989, Ngawang Woeser was sentenced to a 17-year prison term and subsequent deprivation of…
Jamyang Trinlay, a monk from Chamdo monastery, died from severe beatings while in prison last year, says his former fellow-monk, 16-year-old Sonam Woeser. Sonam, who recently escaped to India, says that the “re-education”…
Chadra, a monk from Shabron Monastery in Nagehu region (north of Lhasa), has been missing since mid- February of thisyear. Kunchok Gelek, a monk formerly of Drigung Thil Monastery, says Chadra disappeared after…
The growing number of children fleeing Tibet at a great risk, often sent by parents, is a clear indication of the desperation of Tibetans to reclaim their Tibetan identity. The most recent statistics…
22-year-old old Gyun-ne Dorjee, a monk from Dargye Choeling Monastery, is from Noru in Tsethang sub-county under Lhoka region (close to Lhasa). He was arrested around the last week of May this year…
Tsering Gyaltsen and Yangzom, a married couple from Lhasa, have been reported to be currently in detention after their arrest around the end of September this year. The information was received from a…
The principal of Lhasa Shol School, Drakpa Nyendrak, was reportedly arrested in the first week of July this year for engaging in clandestine pro-Tibetan activities such as drafting slogans and making posters. PSB…
A monk named Dorjee, aged 19, from Lhatse Choede Monastery in Lhatse County in Shigatse Region, was expelled from the monastery in March-April, 1997. He was expelled from the monastery because he refused…
Fourteen nuns had their sentences increased while in prison on 8 October 1993. Despite being behind bars they were courageous enough to voice their feelings and belief on a smuggled tape recorder and…