Trial for Tibetan anti-corruption activist to begin 13 months after detention

Anya Sengdra in an undates photo. Source- TCHRD

DHARAMSHALA, Dec. 4: The trial for a Tibetan anti-corruption activist will begin on Thursday, over 13 months since he was detained. Anya Sengdra, 47, was detained on 4 September 2018 from the highway intersection in Golok by PSB officers and taken to the PSB detention centre in Drotsang County, Tsoshar Prefecture. A 47-year-old Tibetan activist […]

French police dismantle makeshift camp housing 600 Tibetan asylum seekers

Tibetan asylum seekers gather by a portrait of His Holiness at a makeshift camp in Acheres (AFP)

DHARAMSHALA, DEC 4: French police have dismantled a makeshift camp on the edge of a forest outside Paris on Tuesday which was home to some 600 Tibetan asylum seekers. Local authorities in Yvelines said that the camp was dismantled to ‘protect’ the migrants after growing health and safety concerns. It was carried out with the support of […]