(TibetanReview.net, May22’20) – Following China’s suggestion May 19 that the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was not only alive but had now also passed the college entrance examination and had a job, the United States has on May 21 asked to meet with him to see the situation for […]
Gov’t & Leaders on Tibet
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US Secretary of State, Aussie MPs add their voices to global clamour on China over Panchen Lama issue
(TibetanReview.net, May19’20) – In the backdrop of the ongoing war of words between the USA and China over the latter’s...
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Lawmakers in Italy, Estonia, and Germany urge China to release Tibetan religious leader it abducted 25 years ago
(TibetanReview.net, May16’20) – Ahead of the culmination on May 17 of an exile Tibetan campaign to bring international...
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US State Department urged to fill long-pending Tibetan policy post
(TibetanReview.net, May13’20) – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has on...
Lithuanian gov’t moved to ask China to come clean on Tibet’s disappeared Panchen Lama
(TibetanReview.net, May12’20) – With support from 16 other leaders and nearly 100 more fellow-citizens, Dr Andrius Navickas, Member of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania, has asked his country’s President Gitanas Nausėda and Foreign affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius to press the Chinese government to provide reliable information on […]
Read more ›UK MP adds voice to Panchen Lama release call
(TibetanReview.net, May11’20) – Timothy Paul Loughton, Member of British Parliament from the ruling Conservative Party, has issued a video call, calling on the Chinese government to immediately release Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choekyi Nyima ahead of Tibetans marking the 25th anniversary of his abduction by it in 1995 at […]
Read more ›Joint petition asks UN to press China to release 25-year disappeared top Tibetan religious figure
(TibetanReview.net, May08’20) – A total of 159 organizations have urged the United Nations to press a stone-cold-hearted China to forthwith release the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure, whom it had rendered disappeared with his family since May 17, 1995. The occasion was the […]
Read more ›Draft motion in Scottish Parliament urges UK to act on China’s 25-year abduction of top Tibetan religious figure
(TibetanReview.net, May02’20) – A draft motion was tabled in the Scottish Parliament on Apr 23, seeking information on China’s disappearance 25 years ago of Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure, the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, and seeking his release. A separate letter asks UK’s Foreign Secretary to raise […]
Read more ›US religion freedom commission seeks targeted sanctions against China’s rights violators
(TibetanReview.net, Apr29’20) – A bipartisan US federal commission has on Apr 28 called for sanctions against individuals and entities deemed responsible for the persecution of Muslims in Chinese-ruled Xinjiang and for the country to be placed on a State Department blacklist of the world’s worst abusers of religious freedoms. Releasing […]
Read more ›Belgium stands with Tibetans on free Panchen Lama call
(TibetanReview.net, Apr28’20) – Responding to a question raised in parliament, Belgium’s Foreign Minister Mr Philippe Goffin has on Apr 25 expressed shared concern over the human rights situation in Chinese ruled Tibet and on the enforced disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Dalai Lama-recognized 11th Panchen Lama, for 25 years. […]
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