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After exhausting all official mechanisms to find justice for the famous Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, his family members have now resorted to open advocacy for his release.

The International Campaign for Tibet will award its first Snow Lion human rights prize, worth 3,000 euros, to anthropologist and China researcher Adrian Zenz and to the Tibet Film Festival.

Ahead of the Chinese Communist Party Congress beginning this week, the Chinese government has launched a 100-day crackdown labelled “Hundred Days Action” targeting illegal activities related to crimes against women, children, the elderly, the disabled and powerless groups in society.

A Chinese woman’s racist social media post on Saturday calling for the extermination of Tibetans in Tibet’s capital city led to her apprehension after the post went viral.

Thirty-eight delegates listed as Tibetan—including one from the Monpa people, one from the Lhoba people and one without any ethnic identification—are expected to participate in the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, scheduled to begin on 16 October 2022.

The Dalai Lama has called on Tibetans not to feel disheartened amid the Chinese government’s inhumane COVID-19 restrictions in Tibet, which have led to at least five suicides in the past two weeks.

With Chinese officials making no significant changes to their inhumane COVID-19 restrictions in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa despite issuing a recent public apology, a spate of suicides has taken place in the city over the past week.

In a rare admission to the public, the municipal government of Lhasa City on Saturday 17 September admitted mishandling the COVID-19 outbreak in Tibet’s capital since the beginning of August.

EU Statement at the 51st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council – 26 September 2022

At the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today, the International Campaign for Tibet reaffirmed its call for an independent mechanism for Xinjiang (which Uyghurs know as East Turkestan), Tibet, Hong Kong and China.