The #Nepal govt has cancelled an international #Tibetan studies conference that had been 4 years in the planning, overriding its own security agencies’ assessment that the event posed no threat kathmandupost.com/national/202...

Nepal overruled its own security agencies to cancel Tibetan studies conference under Chinese pressure, officials say

Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.

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Human Rights in China (HRIC) strongly condemns the Chinese government’s decision to sanction our organization. Read our full statement here: news.hrichina.org/p/hric-sanct...

HRIC Sanctioned by Chinese Government—Official Statement

Human Rights in China (HRIC) strongly condemns the Chinese government’s decision to sanction our organization. This action is a blatant act of retaliation against entities working to ensure that inter...

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The Nepal government cancelled a week-long international Tibetan studies conference that'd been 4 years in planning — overriding its own security agencies’ assessment that event posed no threat, reversing public assurance frm Home Min Sudan Gurung it'd go ahead: kathmandupost.com/national/202...

Nepal overruled its own security agencies to cancel Tibetan studies conference under Chinese pressure, officials say

Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.

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The New York Times tells the story of Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan activist who self-immolated outside the UN in New York following a final appeal for #Tibetan independence & unity. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...

Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan Activist Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan

No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.

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@France24.com examines fears that China’s new “ethnic unity” law will accelerate the erosion of #Tibetan language, religion and cultural identity: codifying assimilation policies already under way in Tibet. www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Tibet fears erosion of cultural identity under new Chinese Ethnic Unity Law

In July, China implemented a new Ethnic Unity Law, which aims to strengthen patriotism across all regions of the country, including those populated by peoples who are not part of China's dominant Han…

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My latest in Providence. The Absurdity of the CCP’s Attempts to Decide the Next Dalai Lama By Jianli Yang on August 3, 2026 providencemag.com/2026/08/the-...

The Absurdity of the CCP’s Attempts to Decide the Next Dalai Lama - Providence

The Chinese Communist Party, despite being officially atheistic and regarding religion as a malign influence, has gone to great lengths to ensure that it decides the next spiritual leader of Tibetan B...

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🇨🇳 #China last month implemented a new Ethnic Unity Law aiming to strengthen patriotism across all regions of the country, including #Tibet. 🗣️ #Beijing says the law will improve national integration, but Tibetan activists see it as another attempt to erode local identity. Here's the story ⤵️

The extent to which Han Chinese refuse to see the repression of minorities in China sometimes leaves me despairing. But I have also seen a growing number of young Han Chinese discovering these injustices—and responding with intense compassion for the suffering of minorities.

🚨Update: #Lhasa authorities formally arrested activist #ZhangYi on July 28 under the charge of "inciting separatism." He was detained after showing a photo of the #DalaiLama to a Tibetan at Sera Monastery. 🔗 www.nchrd.org/2026/07/chin...

CHRD人权捍卫者网络@chrdnet.bsky.social · 11h ago

7月28日， #张毅 被以涉嫌 #煽动分裂国家罪 执行逮捕，现羁押在拉萨市看守所。 7月1日，张毅在拉萨因展示达赖喇嘛照片被捕； 7月18日，他被以涉嫌“煽动分裂国家罪”刑拘。 张毅是八九学运武汉学生领袖，1989年曾被判刑2年，狱中遭酷刑，导致一只耳朵失聪；多年来他坚持纪念六四。

Lobga Rangzen’s unthinkable act — the first known self-immolation by a Tibetan in the United States — may have achieved one of his greatest goals, however briefly: He made the world pay attention to Tibet. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...

Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan Activist Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan (Gift Article)

No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.

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🔴27-year-old computer programmer #NiuTengyu has spent nearly 7 years behind bars for maintaining a politically sensitive website, targeted by 🇨🇳 govt prosecution. Family hired 16 lawyers, still fighting to appeal. #UN experts urge #Beijing to remedy the situation. 👉 www.nchrd.org/2026/07/un-b...

UN Body Finds China’s Detention of Programmer “Arbitrary” - Chinese Human Rights Defenders

(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 30, 2026) – CHRD welcomes the adoption of an opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) that found the Chinese governmen...

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@tibetwatch.org documents the continued remaking of #Tibetan sacred space in #Drago: the site of the demolished 99-foot Maitreya Buddha is now a horse racing track, & the nearby Geden Buddhist School has been replaced with new buildings. tibetwatch.org/tibetan-budd...

Tibetan Buddhist landmark transformed into racecourse

Once home to a 99-foot Buddha statue in Sengdeng Village, the sacred site has been converted since 2023 into a racecourse.

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The New York Times tells the story of Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan activist who self-immolated outside the UN in New York following a final appeal for #Tibetan independence & unity. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...

Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan Activist Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan

No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.

nytimes.com

@France24.com examines fears that China’s new “ethnic unity” law will accelerate the erosion of #Tibetan language, religion and cultural identity: codifying assimilation policies already under way in Tibet. www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Tibet fears erosion of cultural identity under new Chinese Ethnic Unity Law

In July, China implemented a new Ethnic Unity Law, which aims to strengthen patriotism across all regions of the country, including those populated by peoples who are not part of China's dominant Han…

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The left rightly condemns #colonialism ... until the colonising power is China. In #Tibet, forced assimilation becomes “modernisation” and occupation becomes “liberation.” Anti-colonialism that depends on the identity of the empire is not anti-colonialism at all.

Tenam བསྟན་རྣམ།@tenam.bsky.social · 2d ago

Si l’anticolonialisme ne s’applique que lorsqu’il est politiquement commode, alors ce n’est pas vraiment de l’anticolonialisme. Si la solidarité dépend de l’identité de l’empire plutôt que de la condition des opprimés, alors ce n’est pas vraiment de la solidarité. blogs.mediapart.fr/rangzen/blog...

Chinese police arrested Zhang Yi after he showed a photograph of the Dalai Lama while visiting a monastery in Tibet. https://bit.ly/4bqbtne

China: Activist Arrested Over Photo of Dalai Lama in Tibet Must Be Released

Chinese police arrested Zhang Yi after he showed a photograph of the Dalai Lama while visiting a monastery in Tibet.

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Indians living and working in #China have raised serious concerns over a stark rise in abusive anti-India content on Chinese social media platforms. www.tibetanreview.net/indian-diasp...

Indian diaspora raises cyber harassment concerns in China - Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’26) – As New Delhi and Beijing work to gradually rebuild ties after years of fractured diplomatic relations, post the Galwan clash in 2020, Indians living and working in Chin...

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My blog: “This wound is very difficult to forget or to heal,” Kirti Rinpoche on the traumatic consequences of the #Chinese occupation of Tibet. The self-immolation by Lobga Rangzen testifies to this. བློ་དགའ་རང་བཙན་དམ་པ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གུས་པའི་ཟིན་བྲིས། weblog.savetibet.org/2026/08/late...

Latest self-immolation and the future of the Tibetan struggle - ICT Blog

July this year began on a somber note for the Tibetan people. On July 1, 2026, China’s widely criticized Ethnic Unity and Progress Law came into effect, posing a real risk of acceleration of the erasu...

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AP joined a government-organized trip to Tibet where authorities arranged visits to palaces, Buddhist temples, tourist sites, local businesses... Officials accompanied the foreign journalists, AP journalists were not free to move around or conduct reporting independently. apnews.com/article/chin...

In Tibet, some embrace their native language even under China's sweeping new 'ethnic unity' law

A 73-year-old retired nurse spoke her native Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it — until now.

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The left rightly condemns #colonialism ... until the colonising power is China. In #Tibet, forced assimilation becomes “modernisation” and occupation becomes “liberation.” Anti-colonialism that depends on the identity of the empire is not anti-colonialism at all.

Tenam བསྟན་རྣམ།@tenam.bsky.social · 2d ago

Si l’anticolonialisme ne s’applique que lorsqu’il est politiquement commode, alors ce n’est pas vraiment de l’anticolonialisme. Si la solidarité dépend de l’identité de l’empire plutôt que de la condition des opprimés, alors ce n’est pas vraiment de la solidarité. blogs.mediapart.fr/rangzen/blog...

A towering Buddha statue demolished by Chinese authorities and transformed into a horse-racing track named after the Red Army. A Buddhist school razed to the ground. Our latest report reveals how sacred places are being repurposed to erase memory and identity in Tibet: tibetwatch.org/tibetan-budd...

Tibetan Buddhist landmark transformed into racecourse

Once home to a 99-foot Buddha statue in Sengdeng Village, the sacred site has been converted since 2023 into a racecourse.

tibetwatch.org

China’s reported pressure over #IATS2026 in #Nepal is about more than one conference. @savetibet.bsky.social argues it reflects a broader effort to reshape #Tibetan studies through diplomacy, the Ethnic Unity Law & state-directed Tibetology. savetibet.org/china-pressu...

China pressures Nepal over Tibetan studies conference as it expands control over Tibetology under new ethnic unity law

July 31, 2026 China has quietly pressed Nepal over an

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Freedom House – TNR Watch: Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital Transnational Repression freedomhouse.org/article/tnr-...

TNR Watch: Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital Transnational Repression

A new report from Cloudflare, a company that provides cybersecurity services to internet providers, highlights the array of digital transnational repression tactics employed against exile media outlet...

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The company that developed this #surveillance platform sells products that have been deployed in Tibet, including bomb disposal, counter-terrorism, #UAV, & riot control, equipment, all sold in bulk to "frontline public security users" in #Tibet & #Xinjiang archive.is/oXqWy

Greg@jamyang.net · 2d ago

A rare look inside China’s #surveillance systems, & the #risks created by their unchecked sprawl. Each new public security platform is another place sensitive personal data can be left exposed. Important reporting by Lily Kuo on @marchofer.bsky.social research: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/w...

China’s reported push to restrict #Tibetan media at the #BRICS summit is about more than press accreditation: it tests whether Beijing can export its censorship beyond its borders. Delhi’s response will signal how firmly it defends it's sovereignty & press freedom. theprint.in?p=3003392

Ahead of Xi visit to India for BRICS, China pushes for curbs on media houses linked to Falun Gong, Tibet

Several media outlets connected to Falun Gong & Tibet are blocked in China. Nation’s embassy now wants Ministry of External Affairs to curtail access to such outlets too during summit.

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China’s new Ethnic Unity Law doesn’t just target dissent at home, it claims the right to pursue critics abroad. A concise explanation of why Article 63 matters for #Tibetan, #Uyghur, & other diaspora communities in Canada theconversation.com/china-is-cla...

China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.

theconversation.com

@tibetwatch.org documents the continued remaking of #Tibetan sacred space in #Drago: the site of the demolished 99-foot Maitreya Buddha is now a horse racing track, & the nearby Geden Buddhist School has been replaced with new buildings. tibetwatch.org/tibetan-budd...

Tibetan Buddhist landmark transformed into racecourse

Once home to a 99-foot Buddha statue in Sengdeng Village, the sacred site has been converted since 2023 into a racecourse.

tibetwatch.org

CNN profiles Cheogyal Dawa, a 25-year-old Tibetan from Drago, who recently fled into exile. His account traces the closure of #Tibetan schools, declining language fluency, tighter #surveillance, & the destruction of religious sites under Xi Jinping. www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/c...

A young Tibetan flees his homeland – and reveals how China is eroding his culture | CNN

Xi has mounted what critics say are intensified efforts to suppress dissent and tighten control of China’s ethnic minorities.

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China’s new Ethnic Unity Law doesn’t just target dissent at home, it claims the right to pursue critics abroad. A concise explanation of why Article 63 matters for #Tibetan, #Uyghur, & other diaspora communities in Canada theconversation.com/china-is-cla...

China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.

theconversation.com

China’s reported push to restrict #Tibetan media at the #BRICS summit is about more than press accreditation: it tests whether Beijing can export its censorship beyond its borders. Delhi’s response will signal how firmly it defends it's sovereignty & press freedom. theprint.in?p=3003392

Ahead of Xi visit to India for BRICS, China pushes for curbs on media houses linked to Falun Gong, Tibet

Several media outlets connected to Falun Gong & Tibet are blocked in China. Nation’s embassy now wants Ministry of External Affairs to curtail access to such outlets too during summit.

theprint.in