Tag Archives: Human Rights

• Own up to mass Muslim detentions, Amnesty tells China 24 September 2018 This post has 2 comments

  China must come clean about the fate of an estimated one million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in its far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said Monday. ...

• Wonderful that European countries welcome refugees: Dalai Lama 18 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 7 comments

  "Most of those refugees think of their own lands as home, but just now there is lots of killing, bullying, and suffering there. That’s why they escaped." ...

• India government to streamline RC and IC surrender procedures 14 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 11 comments

  The Delhi High Court has ordered the Government of India to take immediate action to streamline procedures for processing passport applications of Tibetans entitled to Indian citizenship. ...

• Police rescue 15 labourers from farm in Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement 9 September 2018 This post has no comments yet

  The Mysore district administration rescued 15 North Karnatakan migrant labourers who were allegedly forced to work on a 25-acre ginger a farm in the Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement. ...

• Minor boys starved, beaten, used as sex slaves at Bodh Gaya monastery: SIT 31 August 2018 This post has no comments yet

  A special investigative team probing allegations of sexual abuse at a monastery in Bodh Gaya in Bihar has revealed shocking details of how minor boys were being tortured by the head monk. ...

• China spends big in Tibet to avert a crisis when the Dalai Lama dies 30 August 2018 | Eric Baculinao and Jason Cumming This post has 3 comments

  China is pouring billions of dollars into Tibet as Beijing seeks to cement its control before the succession struggle that is likely to follow the death of the Dalai Lama. ...

• Chinese leader urges tight control against separatists in Tibet 28 August 2018 This post has one comment

  A top Chinese leader has called for "advancing anti-separatism efforts" in Tibet, in a sign of continued high-pressure tactics in the Himalayan region. ...

• Activists criticise Google plans to develop censored search in China 23 August 2018 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has 3 comments

  A coalition of 170 Tibet support groups from around the world has demanded that Google immediately drop its plans to develop a censored search app in China. ...

• Time has come to acknowledge that Tibet has vastly improved under Chinese rule 13 August 2018 | Justice Markandey Katju (Retd) This post has one comment

  The Chinese claim that Tibet has been part of the country since the Yuan dynasty, which is disputed by the Tibetans. The more important question is whether Chinese rule has benefited Tibet. ...

• China has prevented ‘great tragedy’ in Xinjiang, state-run paper says | Reuters Staff This post has 10 comments

  Massively stepped-up security in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang has helped prevent “great tragedy”, a state-run newspaper said on Monday. ...