Tag Archives: Human Rights

• Rights groups accuse Nepal PM of harassing watchdog 16 April 2016 This post has no comments yet

  Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists accused the government of failing to respect the independence of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). ...

• New Myanmar government frees political prisoners 8 April 2016 | Hla-Hla Tay This post has no comments yet

  A Myanmar court on Friday freed dozens of jailed students, in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to make releasing political prisoners the first priority of her new government. ...

• Worldwide executions highest since 1989: Amnesty 6 April 2016 | Robin Millard This post has no comments yet

  The surge was largely fuelled by Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, and the total, 1,634, does not include China, which treats death penalty data as a "state secret". ...

• Protests as China’s Xi arrives in Prague 29 March 2016 | Jan Marchal This post has no comments yet

  Protests greeted President Xi Jinping as he arrived in Prague on Monday on the first visit by a Chinese head of state to the Czech Republic. ...

• Lobsang Sangay supporter bashes Penpa Tsering supporters in Orissa 16 March 2016 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has 5 comments

  A supporter of Lobsang Sangay for the Sikyong 2016 election assaulted a group of supporters of rival Penpa Tsering for Sikyong in Orissa Tibetan settlement on 8 March. ...

• Please, my sons and my daughters of Tibet, do not self-immolate 13 March 2016 This post has one comment
• Group leading global anti-Dalai Lama protests disbands 12 March 2016 | David Lague and Stephanie Nebehay This post has 5 comments

  The announcement comes after a Reuters investigation revealed in December that China’s ruling Communist Party backs the ISC behind the protests that have confronted the Dalai Lama. ...

• China howls but Dalai Lama draws crowd at human rights talk | Jamey Keaten This post has 2 comments

  China's UN mission in Geneva circulated a letter to other missions this week asking them to avoid the Tibetan spiritual leader's appearance at a conference of Nobel Peace Prize winners. ...

• First self-immolation of year reported in Tibetan region 2 March 2016 | Christopher Bodeen This post has no comments yet

  A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire and died in a protest against Chinese rule, in the first such action of its kind this year, a US government-funded radio station said Wednesday. ...

• Boy sets himself on fire in Dehra Dun for free Tibet | Abishek Angad This post has 2 comments

  The incident took place while Tsering and his family were visiting his uncle in Dehra Dun. It took the ambulance six hours to reach Delhi. ...