Tag Archives: Human Rights

• Ratu Ngawang passes away at 90 8 February 2016 | Tibet Sun Onlinenews This post has 2 comments

  Ratu Ngawang, a former commander in the Chushi Gangdruk and second in command of India's Special Frontier Force, passed away at age 90 in Delhi. ...

• Assange hails victory from embassy balcony after UN panel ruling 5 February 2016 | Jacques Klopp This post has no comments yet

  Assange has refused to go to Sweden for questioning, fearing deportation to the US over WikiLeaks' release of 500,000 secret military files on US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ...

• China faces diplomatic crisis over missing Hong Kong booksellers | James Pomfret and Greg Torode This post has no comments yet

  Eight governments have raised concerns with Chinese officials, saying detaining Gui and his associates breaches the "one country, two systems" formula. ...

• WikiLeaks’ Assange says to leave Ecuador embassy, accept arrest if loses UN case 4 February 2016 | Matt Siegel This post has no comments yet

  The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is currently considering a request for relief by Assange, who argued in a submission that his time in the embassy constituted arbitrary detention. ...

• China confiscates Dalai Lama portraits 3 February 2016 This post has one comment

  Chinese province Sichuan has ordered Tibetan shopkeepers to hand in portraits of the Dalai Lama, likening the Nobel laureate to executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ...

• Protest against NKT at Bristol 2 February 2016 | Sherab Gyaltsen This post has 2 comments

  The protesters appealed to the NKT to stop their baseless campaign of hatred against the Dalai Lama and to stop hurting the Tibetan people. ...

• China to execute two for killing Tibetan religious leader 1 February 2016 This post has no comments yet

  Akong Tulku Rinpoche, co-founder of Scotland's Samye Ling monastery, was found dead with multiple stab wounds at his home in the southwestern city of Chengdu in 2013. ...

• Chinese official expresses concern over missing Hong Kong bookseller 15 January 2016 | Clare Baldwin This post has one comment

  The comments were the most detailed yet from a Chinese official on the case that has alarmed many in Hong Kong and sparked a string of protests. ...

• Tibetans in Tashi Jong denied voting rights 12 January 2016 | Tibet Sun Onlinenews This post has one comment

  Tibetans in Tashi Jong found their names missing from the voting list for election of the local leader of their locality Nagar Panchayat on Sunday. ...

• Chinese hackers tried to take down Tibetan social networking website 3 January 2016 | Wang Wei This post has no comments yet

  Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy activists, are being repeatedly targeted by persistent Cyber Attacks by Chinese State-sponsored hackers. ...