Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

Human Rights Update and Archives

2008

DECEMBER [ html] [ pdf [an error occurred while processing this directive] ]
Chinese court sentences seven Tibetans between 8 years to life  [ read ]
Testimony of Labrang Jigme  [ read ]
China sentences four Amchok monks in Ngaba County  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD screen its documentary video to a group of foreigners  [ read ]
Centre briefs press delegations from Russia and Ukraine  [ read ]
Professors of Miami Unversity learn about human rights situation in Tibet  [ read ]
Centre meets college graduate students during the workshop  [ read ]
Class XI students on current human rights situation in Tibet  [ read ]
TCHRD releases pictorial calendar  [ read ]

November [ html] [ pdf 257K ]
China re-arrests monk who exposed Chinese crackdown to foreign media  [ read ]
China sentences 14 Tibetans for March unrest in Tibet  [ read ]
Chinese court sentences five Tibetans between 3-10 years imprisonment for Kardze Protests  [ read ]
China detains Drakar and Gaden Choeling Nuns in Kardze  [ read ]
China arrests four nuns in Kardze protest  [ read ]
TCHRD Press Statement on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD attends 12th Annual Asian Training and Study Session for Human Rights Defenders (ATSS) in Bangkok  [ read ]
Director briefs Denver University students  [ read ]
Talk to health staff  [ read ]

October [ html] [ pdf 304K ]
A Tibetan AIDS activist disappears in Tibet  [ read ]
A former chief of Rong Gonchen Monastery in critical condition  [ read ]
Tibetan journalist whereabouts still unknown week after arrest  [ read ]
China fires gunshot on peaceful protester in Kardze in Kardze  [ read ]
China arrests 55 nuns of Pang-ri Nunnery for protesting  [ read ]
China’s legal wrangle of Tibetan popular uprising: A Critique  [ read ]
More cases of Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance surfaces from Tibet  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD organizes workshop for monks and nuns in Mundgod, South India  [ read ]

September [ html] [ pdf 329K ]
Five Ramoche monks missing since April raid  [ read ]
Many Tibetans charged with heavy sentences  [ read ]
China arrests two young monks of Tehor Tsitsang Monastery in Kardze  [ read ]
A Tibetan woman succumbs to torture  [ read ]
Profile of a former political prisoner
Biography of political prisoner Lobsang Tenzin  [ read ]
12 monks of Dingri Shelkar Choedhe Monastery arrested for opposing the “Patriotic re-education” campaign  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD conducts XVII workshop for monks and nuns  [ read ]
Digital Security and Privacy Training for Human Rights Defenders  [ read ]

August [ html] [ pdf 298K ]
Olympics and Tibet under a cloud of repression  [ read ]
Profile of a former political prisoner
Biography of political prisoner Ngawang Phulchung  [ read ]
Testimony by a Tibetan youth in Lhasa  [ read ]
China tortures and arrests two nuns of Dargay Hardu Nunnery for peaceful protest  [ read ]
China detains at least three Tibetans for peaceful protest in Kardze, Tibet  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD releases new documentary video  [ read ]
TCHRD talk series  [ read ]

July [ html] [ pdf 324K ]
Two months’ ultimatum issued to the Tibetan Communist Party members and government employees to recall their children studying in exile schools  [ read ]
China arrests a popular religious figure in Kardze County  [ read ]
China arrests three nuns of Tehor Nyagay Nunnery in Kardze  [ read ]
A Tibetan nomad shot dead in Amdo Golog, hundreds arrested  [ read ]
China jails 17 Tibetans in a “swift and quick” court proceeding  [ read ]
A popular Tibetan religious figure, Geshe Sonam Phuntsok, passes away in Kardze  [ read ]
Situation extremely tense in Xiahe County, defiant monks in front of media tour disappears  [ read ]
Demonstrations in Kardze County  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD attends the 1st UN Advocacy Training Session in Bangkok  [ read ]
TCHRD talks to Tibetan students from abroad at TCV Summer Camp  [ read ]
TCHRD address on workshop  [ read ]

June [ html] [ pdf 301K ]
China detains scores of nuns calling for the release of solo protester and critically injures three monks in Kardze Protests  [ read ]
TCHRD commemorates 11th UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture  [ read ]
Monks detained during Patriotic Education campaign  [ read ]
China closes down Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastic School  [ read ]
Tensions are High as the Olympic Torch Arrives in Lhasa  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
Jampa Monlam Testifies in Spain’s High Court as the Olympic Games Approach  [ read ]
TCHRD talk series  [ read ]

May [ html] [ pdf 172K ]
China detains 32 monks in Chushul County  [ read ]
China arrests 16 monks for defying "patriotic re-education"  [ read ]
Elderly woman brutally beaten during Township meeting  [ read ]
Over hundred of monks arrested after a raid in Ngaba Kirti Monastery  [ read ]
China arrest over 572 monks from Kirti Monastery in two-day raid  [ read ]
In solidarity, Tibetans march with prayers in Tsolho  [ read ]
A new phase of defiance: Nuns of Tawu County hold prayer session for those killed in recent crackdown  [ read ]
Two monks commit suicide in Amdo Ngaba  [ read ]
At least eight shot dead in Tongkor Monastery in Kardze  [ read ]
China arrests over 2300 Tibetans in Tibet  [ read ]
Tortured monk released in unstable mental condition  [ read ]
Around 70 monks of Ramoche Temple detain in midnight raid, whereabouts still unknown  [ read ]
Over hundred Tibetans arrested in Rebkong County  [ read ]
A Tibetan died of torture in Phenpo County  [ read ]
Another Tibetan died of torture  [ read ]
Many Tibetans shot dead during the Phenpo crackdown  [ read ]

April [ html] [ pdf 223K ]
China launches renewed "Patriotic Education" Campaign across all sections in Tibet  [ read ]
Panchen Lama spends his 19th birthday under house arrest  [ read ]
Chronology of Peaceful Protest in Tibet since 10 March 2008  [ read ]

March [ html] [ pdf 188K ]
UPRISING IN TIBET-Chronology of Peaceful Protest in Tibet since 10 March 2008  [ read ]

February [ html] [ pdf 208K ]
Monk sentenced to three years term for "inciting masses"  [ read ]
Tibetans arrested in Rebkong during Monlam Chenmo  [ read ]
A Buddhist shrine under threat of demolition  [ read ]
Profile of a political prisoner
Biography of Political Prisoner Dolma Kyab  [ read ]
Abbot and five other Tibetans arrested in Golog  [ read ]
School for discrimination  [ read ]
"Patriotic re-education" campaign forces monks to commit suicide  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD conducts workshops on "Democratisation and Local Governance" among Tibetan communities in Darjeeling and Gangtok  [ read ]

January [ html ] [ pdf 198K ]
Executive Summary of Annual Report 2007: Human Rights Situation in Tibet  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD releases Annual Report 2007: Human Rights Situation in Tibet  [ read ]
FOSS Workshop in Dharamsala  [ read ]
CSPT pay visit to Centre  [ read ]