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Tibetan children denied classes in their mother tongue, Human Rights Watch says

The Chinese government’s education policy has accelerated the demise of classes taught in the Tibetan language in primary schools across Tibet, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said last Thursday.

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Tibetan uprising anniversary: “If this demonstration was happening in Lhasa, it wouldn’t last very long”

Over a hundred Tibetans and Tibet supporters marched through the streets of central London yesterday to mark 61 years since the 1959 uprising and protest Beijing’s ongoing occupation of Tibet.

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Sam Walton takes the helm at Free Tibet and Tibet Watch

The Boards of Free Tibet and Tibet Watch are delighted to announce the appointment of Sam Walton as the new Chief Executive of both organisations, effective March 9, 2020.

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Tibetan nun commits suicide after expulsion from Yarchen Gar

A Tibetan nun, who authorities expelled from a Buddhist community in eastern Tibet and put in an internment camp, has committed suicide, RFA has reported, citing an anonymous source in the region.

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Authorities plan to build 624 “well off” border villages in Tibet

China plans to spend 21 billion yuan on Tibet border villages.

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First coronavirus case diagnosed in the Tibet Autonomous Region

Coronavirus has reached the Tibet Autonomous Region.