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UPR 2018 Joint Signatories List

The following 167 International Tibet Network Member Groups are signatories to the Joint Submission by Tibet Advocacy Coalition and Member Groups of the International Tibet Network to China’s Universal Periodic Review 2018 Western Europe: Aide aux Refugies Tibetains Association Dorje Association Drôme... Read More

Shokjang Released

High Profile Tibetan Writer Shokjang released from prison after wrongful conviction and three years in a Chinese prison. Shokjang will remain under extreme scrutiny with a further two years’ “deprivation of political rights” Tibet Activists express concern for his welfare... 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

Jiang Tianyong, Chinese lawyer who represented Tibetan human rights defenders, jailed for two years after “sham” trial

Updated 21 November 2017, for immediate release. Contacts: Tenzin Jigdal, International Coordinator (Tibetan, English) + 91 9882255516, jigdal@tibetnetwork.org. Penghsuan Lee, East Asia Coordinator (Chinese, English) + 886 912545542, penghsuan@tibetnetwork.org   [Taipei] International Tibet Network’s Secretariat is outraged at the two year sentence... 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

International Tibet Network Statement on the Death of Liu Xiaobo 13 July 2017

International Tibet Network expresses profound grief at the death of Chinese dissident and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo World governments must strongly and jointly condemn the inhumanity of China’s leadership, and increase pressure for Liu Xia and her brother to travel... Read More