Tibet Watch News

Chinese authorities in Thewo County, Gannan Prefecture, Gansu Province, arbitrarily detained a Tibetan monk in late October this year under the suspicion of having contacts with Tibetans living outside Tibet

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.

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.

Darlak County Police issue notice soliciting information on the group detained in exchange for rewards

Former political prisoner beaten for posting video of government staff refusing license registration

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.