The 14th Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetan people. In the past, Dalai Lamas have also served as the political leaders of Tibet. The current Dalai Lama was exiled ...

Tibetans and Tibet groups today urged UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves to use her visit to China to raise human ...

A Tibetan village leader has died after six months in detention, Tibet Watch has learned. Gonpo Namgyal died shortly after his release last month. Sources state that his body showed signs of torture.

Rachung Gendun was released on 16 November in poor health and is currently undergoing medical treatment at Huaxi hospital in Chengdu, Tibet Watch can confirm. Rachung was arrested on 1 April 2021 at ...

China invaded Tibet in 1950. Inside its borders and across the world, Tibetans have never stopped believing Tibet is a nation. After more than 70 years of occupation, Tibetans still resist China’s ...

“From a legal standpoint, Tibet has to this day not lost its statehood. It is an independent state under illegal occupation.” – Michael van Walt, lawyer and professor at the Institute for Advanced ...

Since March 2009, more than 150 people are known to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet to protest against the repressive Chinese occupation. Self-immolation protests peaked in 2012 when more ...

China is trying to destroy the traditional way of life for Tibetan nomads. Nomads are being forced out of their ancestral lands, which they have farmed for centuries, and relocated to urban ...

For the last six years in a row, US think-tank Freedom House has ranked Tibet among the worst places in the world for civil rights and political freedom. Under the Chinese Communist Party, nobody is ...

The Chinese government has a plan for Tibet’s children: if it gets its own way, the next generation will grow up loyal to the CCP, and strangers to Tibet. Thousands of Tibetans in Tibet are being ...

On the 10th of March 1959, after nearly a decade of repression by the occupying Chinese army, Tibetans in their thousands rose up in protest. They gathered in the streets of their capital Lhasa and ...