Tenzin Dorjee, aged 50, took his own life on May 25, 2023, in his residential quarters. His death follows the torture he suffered, after he was detained for allegedly spreading the teachings of His ...

In mid-March 2024, Chinese government authorities in Ngaba County, eastern Tibet, fired a Tibetan educator for teaching Tibetan language and History in Meruma Township. Donyoe has taught at the Meruma ...

Tibet Watch has received an update on plans for Atsok Monastery. The monks have been coerced again to relocate to make way for construction of a hydropower dam. The Chinese authorities in Drakkar ...

A Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, has been arrested after carrying out a solo protest. The monk, ...

Tibet Watch has learned that Gonmo Kyi and her husband Choekyong have sued the police over the treatment in December 2023, when the pair were detained and beaten. For over a year, Gonmo Kyi has staged ...

A Tibetan prisoner named Ludup was released from prison last month with injuries after being made to carry out forced labour during his three-and-a-half-year prison sentence. A source confirmed Tibet ...

The mother of a Tibetan writer and political detainee passed away on 17 February 2024 after her depression worsened. Phudé had gone over a year without any information about her 29-year-old son Tenzin ...

China invaded Tibet in 1950. Inside its borders and across the world, Tibetans have never stopped believing Tibet is a nation. After more than 70 years of occupation, Tibetans still resist China’s ...

“From a legal standpoint, Tibet has to this day not lost its statehood. It is an independent state under illegal occupation.” – Michael van Walt, lawyer and professor at the Institute for Advanced ...

In recent years, China’s exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources has gathered pace significantly. Tibetans have no power to protect their own land and must watch the economic benefits of its ...

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 ...