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At the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council today, Vincent Metten delivered a statement on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights raising concerns with regard to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in light of the widespread human rights violations committed by China.

In this edition: Penpa Tsering elected as new president of Tibetans in exile; EU-US summit joint statement raises Tibet human rights violations; ICT, MPs call for diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China; European Parliament freezes Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with China; German parliament committee asks China to respect Tibetan human rights (…)

The Board of Directors of International Campaign for Tibet Europe is delighted to announce that Wangpo Tethong will be the new Executive Director. He succeeds Tsering Jampa, who established the office in 1999 and is going into retirement in October 2021.

Tibetans are straining under the crushing weight of a totalitarian one-party dictatorship. The Tibetan people have no say in running their own affairs; all important decisions are made by the CCP and non-Tibetans dominate key leadership posts.

The Tibetan monk Rinchen Tsultrim, held in detention incommunicado for exercising his freedom of opinion and thoughts is known to be detained in Mianyang Prison in Sichuan Province. His whereabouts were completely unknown for over a year and a half after Chinese police ‘disappeared’ him on 27 July 2019 for his online messages.

At the ongoing 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today, Melanie Blondelle delivered a statement on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights calling on China to respect the cultural rights of Tibetans with regard to language and education.

On International Olympic Day today, the International Campaign for Tibet and other organisations held a protest in Brussels to call upon the European Union to take a firm stance against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in light of the Chinese Government’s severe human rights violations.

Five Tibetans who survived torture in their homeland are joining an effort this week by the International Campaign for Tibet to shine a light on China’s use of torture against the Tibetan people.

In a joint declaration following their summit held today in Brussels, the European Union and the United States have underlined their shared concerns about China’s human rights violations, including in Tibet.

The Senate of the Czech Republic this week urged Czech political leaders to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China over Beijing’s human rights abuses, in particular against Tibetans and Uyghurs.