Fifteen Labrang monks approached international journalists on a State-run media tour carrying the banned Tibetan flag and banners reading “We have no freedom of speech”. The monks shouted, “We want freedom, we want human rights and we want Dalai...
Chinese authorities closed down Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery school after a number of the Tibetan students had taken part in protests. Students were sent back to their respective homes after the closure.
In Lhasa, 40 Tibetans, some who were on...
Champa Phuntsok, Chairman of the ‘Tibet Autonomous Region’ stated that Chinese authorities had detained nearly 1,000 Tibetans in Lhasa. Further sources reported that all three major monasteries around Lhasa were on lockdown, sealed off with the presence of hundreds...
A crowd of about 1,000, monks and lay-Tibetans, marched from Mintso Monastery saying prayers for those killed in protests. Several hundred armed police stopped the march and opened fire on the crowd; at least 15 were seriously injured. Before...
24th consecutive day of mass protests across Tibet.
In Lhasa foreign students at the Tibet University were banned from leaving the campus and for over a week their communication devices were disconnected.
At least 30 Tibetans were arrested in Malho for...
More than 300 monks and hundreds more local Tibetans in Kardze staged a peaceful protest to demand the release of detained monks. The demonstrators were confronted by armed security personnel and live ammunition was fired at the crowd, killing...
A new phase of Tibetan defiance: Around 200 nuns from Ratroe Nunnery. eastern Tibet, set off in a peaceful procession in solidarity with Tibetan protesters who had lost their lives in the uprising across the Tibetan plateau. The nuns...
Protests continued across Tibet and Chinese authorities ramped up a crackdown on an enormous scale. Tibetan farmer, Dawa, died after being arrested for taking part in a peaceful protest; he was reportedly tortured by Chinese prison guards. Jamyang Kyi,...
Tibetan performers, teachers and poets were arrested and taken into custody in Amdo, on suspicion of political activism. Tibetan rap artist Golok Dabe was arrested in connection with helping the monks from Labrang Monastery to print the banned Tibetan national...
20th consecutive day of protests stretched across Tibet - Tibetans in multiple areas continued to rise up; at Wara Monastery, Central Tibet, monks staged a peaceful protest that ended after senior lamas intervened to stop a bloody crackdown. Monks...