Oct. 31, 2023
From school to monastery, from monastery to exile in India
Tibet Watch conducted a series of interviews this year with a group of newly arrived Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, northern India who escaped from occupied Tibet.
Oct. 30, 2023
An Autobiography of Dalai Lama hidden in a sack of grain
This interview was conducted on 21 September and is the sixth in the series. The refugee is a forty-year-old woman from central Tibet. Born into a family labeled as “class enemies” by the Chinese Communist Party, her father, the first in her village to serve the Tibetan Army, was sent to prison after the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, and she was denied rights.
Oct. 25, 2023
Eight Tibetans detained after collecting donations for religious offering
Darlak County Police issue notice soliciting information on the group detained in exchange for rewards
Oct. 24, 2023
Tashi Wangchuk beaten by police head, refused business registration for new shop
Former political prisoner beaten for posting video of government staff refusing license registration
Oct. 12, 2023
A Photo of Lama Hidden in a Box
This interview was conducted on 20 September and is the fifth in the series. The refugee is an eight-year-old refugee girl from Ngari in western Tibet, from where news rarely emerges compared to Tibetan areas in the east.
Oct. 12, 2023
All textbooks in Tibetan replaced in Ngaba
As of September 2023, all core curriculum textbooks in Tibetan schools in Ngaba Prefecture have been replaced with Chinese-language variants.