Disappeared, Tortured and Silenced

Tibet Watch has documented a cluster of cases from across Tibet that reveal an intensifying pattern of repression targeting Tibetans for acts that belong to the ordinary cultural, religious and intellectual life of a Tibetan community. This report documents cases of Tibetan political prisoners who are in critical condition after torture, poor health after release from prison, or who have been ‘disappeared’. They show a system that is methodical, opaque and increasingly punishing even of private expressions of Tibetan identity.