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September 11, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

UN asked to focus on disappeared Tibetans, in particular the 11th Panchen Lama

On 11 September 2019, ICT’s Kai Müller delivered a statement at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva, on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), in which he urged the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance and other relevant special procedures to express concern and request information about disappeared Tibetans, in particular the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.

September 6, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

Monk sentenced to 3 years in prison, possibly for contacting people outside Tibet

A Tibetan monk from the influential Kirti monastery was sentenced to three years in prison this week after being held incommunicado in detention for more than one year.

August 30, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

On Day of Disappeared, ICT joins call for release of Tibetan prisoner

As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and other NGOs are calling on China to stop forcibly disappearing Tibetans and others persecuted by the Chinese Communist regime.

August 22, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

New ‘social security’ cards in Tibet expand China’s control over Tibetans’ lives

Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have apparently deepened their control over the Tibetan population with the rollout this summer of social security cards.

August 15, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

World learns of Tibetan monks’ disappearance, imprisonment despite Chinese govt. lockdown

News of the disappearance and imprisonment of three monks has emerged from the Ngaba area of eastern Tibet, which has been subject to a brutal crackdown by the Chinese government since the wave of self-immolations began there in 2009.

August 12, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

Chinese policies increase risk of climate emergency for Tibetan nomads, UN panel says

China’s policies in Tibet have increased the vulnerability of Tibetan pastoralists to climate change, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states in its latest report.

August 7, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

Environmental concerns over new railway tunnel in Tibet; music video conveys harsh propaganda message

Inside Tibet Report: Chinese scientists warn of environmental consequences as railway tunnel completed in Tibet ; Bizarre music video conveys harsh propaganda message on Tibet.

July 25, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

Reciprocal access to Tibet goes global: UK lawmaker introduces legislation inspired by US law

Inspired by the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act adopted in the US last year, a UK lawmaker introduced a bill in Parliament this week calling on Chinese officials to give British diplomats, journalists and ordinary citizens access to Tibet or be denied entry to the UK.

July 18, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

UN Special Rapporteurs ask China for information about nine Tibetans imprisoned for celebrating Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday

Five UN Special Rapporteurs have written to the Chinese government requesting information about a group of Tibetans arrested for celebrating the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday.

July 18, 2019 ・ International Campaign for TibetNews

Tibetan activist, whose lama uncle died in Chinese prison, calls for justice at US religious freedom event

The niece of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a revered Tibetan lama who died mysteriously in a Chinese prison in 2015, spoke at a major gathering on religious freedom in Washington, DC this week, where she urged the governments of the world to hold China accountable for his death.

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