(TibetanReview.net, Jan08’20) – More than 30 Tibetans were detained under harsh conditions for more than 20 days in Sershul (Chinese: Shiqu) County of Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in a general Chinese crackdown after two small protests in a township on Nov 7 and Nov 21, 2019 led to […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct22’19) – While the police in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu were professional in their detention of Tibetan poet and independence activist Mr Tenzin Tsundue ahead of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping for his informal Oct 11-12 summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he […]

(TibetanReview.net, May10’19) – China has on May 8 jailed a Tibetan youth for four and half years for making a public calls for the release of the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure recognized by the Dalai Lama in 1995, and an aunt of […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan27’19) – Residents of three townships in Gade (Chinese: Gande) County of Golog (Guoluo) Prefecture, Qinghai Province, have submitted separate petitions in Oct and Nov 2018, calling for the release of a Tibetan man who had campaigned for their subsistence right and had been detained for it since Sep […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’19) – More than 100 China experts and former envoys to Beijing have called on President Xi Jinping to release two Canadians who have been detained six weeks ago, saying the cases undermined his efforts to build bridges to the rest of the world. China took into custody Michael […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug29, 2018) – Two members of a democracy party in Hong Kong were detained and subjected to hours of intimidating questioning during their separate visits to China in March and August this year, with the latter one having been asked whether he or she supported the Tibetan independence movement, […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul11, 2018) – After holding her in a form of strict detention for years while all the time calling her “free”, China has finally relented to international pressure by letting Liu Xia, window of the 2010 Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, to board a flight for Germany […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul06, 2018) – UN human rights experts have on Jul 4 called on China to release Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow her to seek treatment for deteriorating health, including travelling abroad. China has been holding her in detention without any legal […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun07, 2018) – Chinese authorities in Gansu’s capital Lanzhou detained on May 25 a Tibetan university student who had contributed to an online literary journal without specifying any reason but released him on Jun 5, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Jun 5. Pema Gyatso, a 35-year-old student at […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30, 2018) – Police in Nepal’s capital kathmandu detained and threatened to deport earlier this month a Tibetan man for having posted on Facebook a photo of himself with a Tibetan national flag and writing to embassies in Kathmandu about human rights concerns in Tibet, said Washington-based International Campaign […]