Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

Human Rights Update and Archives

2009

December [ html] [ pdf 201K ]
Lithang and Nyagchuka County Tibetans seek release of their spiritual teacher  [ read ]
TCHRD Press Statement on the 61st Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  [ read]
November [ html] [ pdf 278K ]
A Tibetan writer-photographer sentenced  [ read ]
Tongkor shooting survivor reaches exile with a harrowing tale  [ read]
TESTIMONY OF TONGKOR DORJEE RINCHEN  [ read ]
October [ html] [ pdf 527K ]
China Executes Four Tibetans In Lhasa Over Spring 2008 Protest  [ read ]
Tibetan schools closed down in Tibet  [ read ]
A Tibetan Returnee from India sentenced to 15 years in prison  [ read ]
Eleven missing monks of Pangsa identified  [ read ]
Three Tibetans arrested in Sog County during the 60th founding anniversary of PRC  [ read ]
China sentenced three monks in Kardze  [ read ]
China arrests Tibetans for participating in religious ritual  [ read ]
A Tibetan returnee sentenced to 14 years in prison  [ read ]
China sentenced Three Tibetan monks  [ read ]
A Tibetan monk arrested after a raid  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD Talk Series this month  [ read ]
TCHRD briefed Tibetans in Manjnu-ka Tilla  [ read ]
TCHRD organized talk series in Bylakuppe, south India  [ read ]
Banglore RTYC invited TCHRD for a talk  [ read ]
TCHRD participated in a discussion forum  [ read ]
TCHRD presided over candle light vigil  [ read ]
TCHRD briefs Nobel Laureates  [ read ]
September [ html] [ pdf 409K ]
A Tibetan monk died from torture whilst in China detention  [ read ]
China launches the “Strike hard” campaign in Tibet ahead of major anniversary  [ read ]
Secretariat of the UN committee against discrmination censor TCHRD report  [ read ]
Testimony of Tashi Namgyal and other five Tibetan monks who recently escaped from Tibet  [ read ]
Four Tibetans sentenced to various prsion terms for March Uprising in Tibet 2008  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD conducts its 22nd workshop at the College for the Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah  [ read ]
TCHRD organized a Public Talk to commemorate the 49th Anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day  [ read ]
August [ html] [ pdf 392K ]
China sentences eight Tibetans to varying prison terms in Tibet  [ read ]
China arrests brothers on run  [ read ]
Tsering Gyurmey and Tsering Dhargyal  [ read ]
Local authorities confirm 3 Tibetans who were killed during the 2008 uprising in Tibet  [ read ]
A Tibetan sentenced 5 years prison-term for 2008 uprising in Tibet  [ read ]
Mining project in Meldro Gungkar put Tibetan Livelihood and environment in jeopardy  [ read ]
Two Monks disappeared after raid in Labrang Monastery  [ read ]
A Monk of Labrang Monastery abducted in a raid  [ read ]
China displaces tens and thousands of Tibetans in Tawu County  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
A video appeal from a Tibetan inside Tibet to the International Community  [ read ]
July [ html] [ pdf 254K ]
A Tibetan monk sentenced to 3-years in jail for opposing ‘Patriotic education’ Campaign  [ read ]
Monk suicides on the rise in Buddhist Tibet  [ read ]
Biography of former political prisoners Tsewang Dhondup and Lobsang Thupten  [ read ]
China denies family access to two Labrang monks serving lengthy prison sentences  [ read ]
China expels disciplinary head of Amdo Jaqung Monastery  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
New Chairperson at the TCHRD Board of Director  [ read ]
TCHRD briefs full bright Scholars  [ read ]
Talk to Tibetan students from U.S.A  [ read ]
June [ html] [ pdf 158K ]
The fate of Sertha monk remains unknown year after arrest  [ read ]
TCHRD commemorates 12th UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture  [ read ]
Biography of former political prisoners Ngawang and Topjor  [ read ]
A guide sentenced to three years in prison  [ read ]
Chinese court sentences six monks in Chamdo  [ read ]
China sentences a monk to life imprisonment term  [ read ]
TCHRD fears for the fates of two Tibetans sentenced to death  [ read ]
Students Expelled From School in Kanlho  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD conducts its XXIst workshop in South India  [ read ]
TCHRD organizes public talk  [ read ]
May [ html] [ pdf 435K ]
A popular Tibetan religious head put on trial in Kardze  [ read ]
Tibetan monks stage sit-in protest in front of Chinese court  [ read ]
China arrests two nuns of Dragkar Nunnery in Kardze  [ read ]
TCHRD condemns the Lhasa court verdicts  [ read ]
TCHRD urges China to overturn death sentences  [ read ]
TCHRD calls for the release of Jigme Gyatso on medical ground  [ read ]
School students demonstration in Labrang County  [ read ]
Tibetan voice gagged at the Durban Review Conference  [ read ]
China arrests Tibetan writer in Ngaba  [ read ]
A Monk who exposed Chinese brutality released  [ read ]
China’s possible re-election to the UN Human Rights Council, a question of credibility  [ read ]
April [ html] [ pdf 156K ]
CTCHRD condemns China sentencing of three Tibetans  [ read ]
A solo nun stages protest march in Kardze  [ read ]
Chinese authorities re-arrest Jigme Gyatso  [ read ]
China arrest Tibetan in Kardze over farming boycott movement  [ read ]
Ragya Monastery encircled, reeling under severe restriction  [ read ]
A Tibetan writer-photographer arrested in Gansu Province  [ read ]
A Tibetan monk beaten to death by Chinese Security Police  [ read ]
Drango farmers arrested by the Chinese security police  [ read ]
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the XI th Panchen Lama turns 20.  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
Desktop Publishing workshop for Tibetans  [ read ]
March [ html] [ pdf 156K ]
China detains 95 Tibetans who protested in the aftermath of Tashi Sangpo’s suicide in Machu River  [ read ]
Nine monks sentenced, other committed suicide in Tibet  [ read ]
China to step up unprecedented restriction in Tibet  [ read ]
Tibetans Protest in Kardze during the Tibetan New Year  [ read ]
Self-immolated man told to amputate his legs  [ read ]
A website proprietor arrested in Gansu province  [ read ]
China arrests a Tibetan civil servant in Mangra County, Qinghai Province  [ read ]
Tashi Dhondup’s younger brother disappeared  [ read ]
China Sentences four Puru-na Nuns in Kardze County  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD at the 10th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council  [ read ]
Centre attends two days Workshop at Surya Hall  [ read ]
February [ html] [ pdf 146K ]
China arrests a solo protester in Lithang  [ read ]
Fifteen Tibetans arrested in Lithang after a peaceful protest  [ read ]
China grills 5766 Tibetans Under Winter “Strike Hard” Campaign in Lhasa  [ read ]
A Tibetan man blinded and sentenced to four years’ in jail in Ngaba  [ read ]
Two sentenced in Kardze  [ read ]
China sentences four nuns and two laymen in Kardze  [ read ]
More cases of detention and disappearance emerges after Lithang Protest  [ read ]
China sentences four Tibetans in Kardze  [ read ]
Lithang under siege days after the protest  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
TCHRD Conducts 20th Workshop in Nepal  [ read ]
Orientation on Local Governance in Majnu-ka-Tilla  [ read ]
January [ html] [ pdf 343K ]
Executive Summary of Annual Report 2008: Human Rights Situation in Tibet  [ read ]
Human Rights Situation in Tibet: Annual Report 2008  [ read ]
TCHRD Activities Bulletin:
Centre releases its 2008 Annual Report: Human Rights Situation in Tibet  [ read ]
TCHRD attend 3rd Regional HRDs Forum and the Asia Pacific Regional Consultation on WHRDs  [ read ]