As far as China is concerned there is no Tibet, only ‘Xizang’. The Chinese government has eliminated Tibet from foreign-language communications, and has instead replaced it with their own word ‘Xizang ...

A communication to the Chinese government by a group of six United Nation human rights experts has been made public, raising concern over the arrest, enforced disappearance and ongoing detention of ...

China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...

Breakthrough at the UN sees an unprecedented 21 countries confront the Chinese government over its human rights record in Tibet… ...

In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...

Tibet Watch has received updates on mass demolitions carried out late last year at the Tibetan Buddhist community of Larung Gar. More than 1,000 monks and nuns are reported to have been expelled from ...

Ahead of Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband’s visit to China, UK-based Tibetans and Tibet campaign groups have called on him to press Chinese officials on climate justice ...

For a second time, Tower Hamlets Council has unanimously voted against China’s plans for a super embassy in the London borough. After hearing from residents and the Metropolitan Police, and taking ...

A source from the area confided that “the demolition of Lungkya monastery and nunnery started a month ago but the authorities have still not yet given any information about when it will end and when ...

Chinese police authorities in Drag-yab County (Ch: Zhag’yab County) and Chamdo have been monitoring families of exiled Tibetans with special attention for the past two years. New surveillance tactics ...

Tibet Watch has learned of the demolition of a third large Buddhist statue in Drago County. In November 2021, Chinese authorities of Drago County demolished a statue of eighth-century Indian Tantric ...

Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan political prisoner, Tsultrim Gyatso, was handed a six-month reduction of his prison sentence in April last year. The ruling by the ...