Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has learned that Tibetan political prisoner, Tsultrim Gyatso, was handed a six-month reduction of his prison sentence in April last year. The ruling by the ...

Years of advocacy and human rights monitoring paid off at the United Nations today as a record number of countries confronted the Chinese government over its policies in Tibet. The setting was China’s ...

The statement follows the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday in July, and further calls on the Chinese government to provide updates on Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama. Five UN experts and working ...

Over the weekend, Nanhai Buddhism Shenzhen Roundtable took place in Nepal. 220 Chinese Buddhist monks arrived on a chartered flight for the Chinese-organised Buddhist events in Kathmandu and Lumbini.

China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...

The Chinese government has announced plans to forcibly relocate more than one hundred thousand Tibetans from their homes on the Tibetan Plateau in the next eight years. According to Chinese-state ...

Free Tibet and Tibetan Community in Britain strongly condemn the violent assaults by the Chinese consulate staff in Manchester yesterday. A peaceful Hong Kong protestor was pulled inside the Chinese ...

From dramatically reduced viewership around the world, to the attention that has been drawn to the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, Free Tibet wants to reflect on the No Beijing 2022 ...

The 14th Dalai Lama has released a new book in which he addresses some of the key challenges facing his occupied country Tibet, including the matter of his succession. The book, Voice of the Voiceless ...

In March this year, Kanzi Prefecture Bureau of Education authorities issued a notice banning Tibetan classes for all middle schools from 2024. This is the last year before Tibetan classes are removed ...

NEW YORK CITY – On 2 July 2026 at 5:49pm EDT 52 year-old Lobsang Palden, widely known as Lobga Rangzen, self-immolated in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, USA. He later ...

[LONDON] A coalition of Tibet groups (1) in the UK strongly condemns Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang for his recent explosive firework display in Tibet, which comes days before his major London ...