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01/05/2020 News

China: Stop using coronavirus excuse to continue imprisoning Tibetan language rights advocate

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) condemns the latest attempt by Chinese authorities to block imprisoned Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk’s appeal against his five-year prison term by giving the excuse of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Tashi Wangchuk had been sentenced to five years in prison on the trumped-up charge of “inciting separatism” in May 2018 by the Yushu Intermediate People’s Court in Qinghai Province following which he decided to appeal the sentence through his lawyers Lin Qilei and Liang Xiaojun.

23/04/2020 News

Panel Discussion: ‘Tibetan Political Prisoners: Rights and Responses’

John Gaudette (middle) speaks alongside UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief Mr Heiner Bielefeldt

On 21 April 2016, the second talk in the TCHRD’s United States Tibet Talk Series was at the International Campaign for Tibet’s offices in Washington D.C. The first talk in the series was hosted with the Nanda Center for International Law at the University of Denver on 17 February. The most recent conference, “Tibetan Political Prisoners: Rights and Responses” was a panel discussion with ICT’s Andrea Worden and Sophie Richardson from Human Rights Watch and moderated by TCHRD’s John Gaudette.

10/04/2020 News

Chinese relocation plan will displace more than 130000 Tibetan nomads in TAR

Chinese authorities in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) are implementing the so-called Ecological Relocation Plan (2018-2025) for extremely high altitude areas of more than 4,800 meters in Nagchu (Ch: Naqu), Ngari (Ch: Ali), and Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) cities.

06/04/2020 News

March 2020 Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest

The March 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: Chinese relocation plan will displace more than 130000 Tibetan nomads in TAR Chinese cadres and migrants resume…

16/03/2020 News

China: Release Tibetan businessman unjustly imprisoned for life and reverse discriminatory verdict

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) demands the immediate release of Dorje Tashi, a Tibetan private entrepreneur currently serving life imprisonment and held in detention since 10 July 2008 in Chushur Prison near Lhasa city, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang.

The Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court had sentenced Dorje Tashi to life imprisonment on 26 June 2010 for allegedly committing “loan fraud”. A decade later, his case is being appealed for the second time on the ground that the verdict itself was wrong and unfair.

20/02/2020 News

China extends grassroots surveillance program for ninth year in a row

Chinese authorities have announced the stationing of more than 20,000 cadres in 5,464 villages as part of the controversial ‘Solidify the Foundation, Benefit the Masses’ (Ch: qianji huimin) campaign in TAR.

02/02/2020 News

January 2020 Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest

The January 2020 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: New regulation on ‘national unity’ adopted in TAR raises concerns of accelerated assimilation Grassroots surveillance program extended for…

04/01/2020 Monthly Digest 2019-2020 / News

December Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet

The December 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest includes the following articles: China rewards 49 monasteries and 4,130 monks and nuns upholding its religious policy TAR Party leaders emphasize opposing separatism on…

20/12/2019 News

Tibetan man criminally detained for phone conversation about Tibetan language education

A Tibetan man was detained in a ‘re-education’ facility for over a month after he was caught conversing on phone with his younger brother about the importance of teaching Tibetan to their children in Dingri (Ch: Tingri) County, Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) City, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang.

16/12/2019 News

China: Tibetan anti-graft campaigners sentenced on bogus charges in a show trial

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the illegal sentencing of Mr A-nya Sengdra, a Tibetan nomad and anti-graft campaigner, to seven years of imprisonment and calls for his…

10/12/2019 News / TCHRD Statements

Human Rights Day 2019: UN member-states must defend universal human rights by protecting civil society voices

On the 71st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) calls on the UN member-states to defend universal human rights by protecting…