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‘Missing For Over 20 Years’: Call for Renewed Push for Evidence about the Panchen Lama

Press release:  17 May 2018 Global Tibet Campaigners launch Renewed Call to World Governments to seek tangible evidence of the well-being and whereabouts of kidnapped Tibetan religious leader, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama [London] For over 20 years,... Read More

Joint Letter to Xi Jinping: Release Tashi Wangchuk

Open Letter To President Xi Jinping RE: Immediate and unconditional release of Tibetan language advocate, Tashi Wangchuk  Our organisations are committed to freedom of expression, freedom of the press and human rights in Tibet and China. We are writing today,... Read More

Linguists Call for Release of Tibetan Language Advocate

LINGUISTS ADD VOICE TO CALL FOR RELEASE OF DETAINED TIBETAN LANGUAGE ADVOCATE CHINA REMAINS SILENT ABOUT TASHI WANGCHUK’S VERDICT NEARLY THREE MONTHS AFTER HIS ‘CLOSED DOOR’ TRIAL 17 April 2018 Nearly three months after Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk was... Read More

China Remains Silent About Tibetan Rights Activist Tashi Wangchuk

Media Statement: Immediate Release – 14 April 2018 China Remains Silent About Tibetan Rights Activist Tashi Wangchuk, 100 Days After His ‘Closed Door’ Trial Tibetans and Global Tibet Groups Demand His Immediate Release, Echoing Calls from United Nations Human Rights... Read More

Open Letter | Prime Minister May – Do Not Be Bullied By China

Joint Letter to Prime Minister Theresa May The Rt. Honourable Theresa May, MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Madame Prime Minister, Theresa May As you prepare for your first visit to China as British Prime Minister, we... Read More

Mobile Billboard Calls on Liverpool FC Owner to Drop Tibet Water Deal

SUNDAY: Mobile Billboard Calling on Liverpool FC Owner to Drop Controversial Deal With Chinese Company, Tibet Water, to Circle Team’s Bus Route Before Manchester City Match Over 80,000 Demand  Liverpool FC Owner John W. Henry Cancel Deal with Tibet Water... Read More

Tashi Wangchuk Tried 4 January 2018

Language Rights Advocate Tashi Wangchuk tried 4 January 2018 – No Verdict Yet Tashi Wangchuk, a 32-year old Tibetan shopkeeper and advocate for the rights of Tibetans to learn and study in the Tibetan language, went on trial in Yushu,... Read More

Xi opens 19th Party Congress with stark warning to any territory seeking independence

Press Release: Tibet Network’s report demonstrates Xi’s crushing of dissent both at home, and increasingly abroad, since taking power Xi Jinping opened China’s 19th Communist Party Congress today with a lengthy speech that included a strong reiteration of his intolerance of... Read More

Xi Jinping | Five Years of Failure in Tibet

Press Release: New report released ahead of China’s 19th Communist Party Congress Undoubtedly the most dominant leader that China has seen since Deng Xiaoping, Xi Jinping is expected to cement the power he has built over China’s Communist Party (CCP),... Read More

Tibet Groups express deep outrage at the sentencing of Hong Kong democracy activists

17 August 2017. Contacts: Dorjee Tseten, Co Chair of Tibet Network, Member of Tibetan Parliament + 1 646 753 3889 or Alison Reynolds, Executive Director, International Tibet Network, +44 7711 843884 “We condemn Hong Kong’s highly political sentencing of democracy leaders... Read More