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On the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Campaign for Tibet joins over 30 groups advocating for human rights and freedom in issuing a joint statement asking the international community to put an end to all forms of enforced disappearance in the People’s Republic of China.

The reported COVID-19 outbreaks in Tibet may be the result of Chinese tourism encouraged by the Chinese government, according to observers inside Tibet.

The government-backed Chinese Buddhist Association in the coastal province of Guangdong has called to “resolutely resist illegal preaching by Tibetan monks” in a move similar to previous notices issued in China’s Shanxi Province.

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In a public notice just ahead of the Dalai Lama’s birthday on 6 July 2022, the Lhasa Municipality Public Security Bureau has offered rewards for Tibetans reporting on crimes against “state security” in order to “build an iron wall of stability.”

World leaders, Nobel laureates, spiritual teachers, professional athletes, human rights advocates, Tibetans and countless others celebrated across the globe on 6 July as the Dalai Lama turned 87.

Jigme Gyatso, a prominent former political prisoner, has died on 2 July 2022. He had been unrecoverably ill since his release in October 2016 after serving five years in prison on a conviction for “inciting separatism.”

More than 17,000 Tibetans from Tsonyi county, Nagchu prefecture are to leave their homes to settle about 400km away in Lhoka prefecture of the “Tibet Autonomous Region,” Chinese state media are reporting. The Tibetans will join the 4,000 farmers and herdsmen that were already relocated in the first phase of relocation in 2019.

In recent weeks, the detentions of six Tibetans have come to light, among them writers and intellectuals. Of these, four are known to be either in detention or sentenced to prison terms for freely expressing their opinions and thoughts on Tibetan national identity and culture. Two are in detention after Chinese security personnel searched their phones.

On the occasion of the Czech Republic Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which starts on 1 July , the International Campaign for Tibet and Czechs Support Tibet have called on the Czech government to promote a new EU China policy with human rights at its center.