Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political and social controls and economic...
Voice of America reports that a 22-year-old Tibetan man named Drugkho self-immolated in Sichuan on...
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
Citing Tibetan sources, Radio Free Asia reports that a 63-year-old Tibetan monk named Tenga has...
Tibetan writer and blogger Druklo has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in...
While in China last week, U.S. House Minority Leader and longtime critic of Beijing’s human...
The Tibetan Review reports that thousands of Tibetans in the province of Sichuan defied government...
Imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker and activist Dhondup Wangchen has been released from jail six years...
At The New Yorker, former China correspondent Evan Osnos predicts next year’s top ten China...
Photographer Laurent Zyblerman and writer Eric Meyer were two of the first Western journalists...
Two unidentified Tibetan monks reportedly set fire to themselves in front of Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple on Sunday. From Radio Free Asia: “The security forces arrived immediately and put out the fire and all the tourists in the area...
State news site Tibet.cn celebrates a French newspaper’s departure from the Western “double standards”, “biased reports” and “Cold War mentality” often lamented by Chinese officials,...
This photograph (via CDT Chinese) was taken in 2010 in Kangding city, in the Ganzi/Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of western Sichuan. The poster’s comment: “As I was out for a stroll, I happened to see a...
Recent standoff between Chinese military forces and Tibetan monks in Ngaba County in Sichuan has been escalating over the past month. The Dalai Lama has now spoken out, hoping Tibetan protesters will show greater restraint and...
Two Tibetans were sentenced to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa last March. From the Guardian: According to the Xinhua news agency, Lobsang Gyaltsen will be executed for arson...
To recognize the 50th anniversary of the PRC’s rule of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s exile, China has declared March 28th to be a holiday that marks Tibetan emancipation. From Jason Subler of Reuters: China marked its...
For the China Media Project, David Bandurski looks at coverage of Tibet in the Chinese media, starting from a recent headline carried by all the major official media in recent days: “Treasuring the fruits of democratic...
[Editor’s Note: Since March, a series of events including unrest in Lhasa and protests following the Olympic torch relay, have brought to the surface a clash between nationalist elements of the Chinese public and...
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