TIN has received confirmation regarding the first known political imprisonment in the large Hydroelectric Equipment Plant west of Xining in Qinghai province (traditionally known as Amdo by Tibetans).
Nepalese authorities yesterday handed down jail sentences to 18 Tibetan refugees apprehended by police on April 15th. The group now in prison includes 10 teenagers. Officials in Nepal's Home Ministry have indicated their intention to deport the group of refugees back to Chinese authorities in Tibet.
The members of the Central Tibetan Administration had the rare opportunity to listen to a talk by the well-known ecological activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. The talk was titled ‘Towards Compassionate Technology and Compassionate Economy’ and
One hundred tour guides from different Chinese provinces have been assigned to Tibet each year for the next decade, representing a further threat to the livelihoods of Tibetan guides, who have been under increasing political pressure for several years.
A group of 14 Norwell High School students, accompanied by their principal Stephen Mahoney, were among more than 1,000 young activists to attend a demonstration in New York City Monday to protest human rights abuses.
F W DE KLERK - Former president of South Africa, co-recipient with Nelson Mandela of the Nobel peace prize in 1993. "Right from the beginning I took the view that the international community needs to take strong action against the Saddam Husseins of this world
For the past two weeks, Cornell's East Asia Program has been collaborating with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) in the yearly "Ithaca-Cornell Tibet Weeks" event. The highlight of this week occurred Wednesday evening at Anabel Taylor Hall as world-renowned Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso
