“Tibetans are forbidden to speak in Tibetan while communicating, and if any Tibetan artist tries to represent Tibetan culture and tradition on their social media platform, their accounts are disconnected,” the source said.
He was first arrested in 1998, as he refused to participate in forced political indoctrination imposed on Buddhist monks in Sichuan, and sentenced to three and a half years in jail. He was abused in prison and contracted chronic lung...
“Many Tibetans were detained in January after Drago county police searched their phone data in Likhog town,” said a Tibetan in exile who has source inside the region. “Most of them are detained in a labor camp in Thangnagma.”
With no exams allowed in the Tibetan language for Tibetans applying for government jobs, young Tibetans have no choice but to study Chinese in their schools and ignore their own language, Wangchuk wrote on his Weibo account on Jan. 3.
Lobsang Lhundup, known by the pen name of Dhi Lhaden, was sentenced for writing a book that criticized the Chinese rule in the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China and for “creating disorder among the public.
Almost a month after Sengdruk Taktse was closed, Chinese authorities arrested one of its longest-serving teachers, Rinchen Kyi, accusing her of inciting separatism, a charge frequently used against Tibetans promoting the preservation of Tibet’s language and culture in the face...
Xi also visited the holy places of Tibetan Buddhism, for photo opportunities with mandatorily cheering monks. Bitter Winter was told that he repeated the usual slogans that monks should love the Party and follow the Party, and warned that any...
Also called Monlam Chenmo, the annual prayer festival traditionally draws thousands of participants, but attendance at Labrang and Rebgong will be limited this year to monastery residents and a few selected locals “as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread...
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is forcing Tibetans into labor, military training, and "re-education" to eliminate the "harmful influence" of their religion, under the guise of a poverty alleviation scheme in the Himalayan region
