Tag: Tibetan

LIVE 3:30 PM ET: Richard Gere and Bipartisan Lawmakers Host Press Conference on Tibet

U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), House Committee on Rules Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), U.S. Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), joined by actor Richard Gere and the International Campaign for Tibet, host a press conference at 3:30 p.m. ET on March 28, to discuss the situation of Tibetans…


Shangri-La to Shanghai | Tough Rides Season 1 Ep6

The closure of the Eastern Tibetan border forces the Pyle brothers to travel by plane, reconnecting with their bikes in Shangri-La. From here, they head to Guizhou Province. …


‘The China Nexus’: New Book Chronicles CCP’s ‘Human Rights Horrors’ of Three Decades

Benedict Rogers had an idea late one night—to write a book that chronicles all of the “human rights horrors” committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that he observed during his three decades of experience as a journalist and human rights campaigner in and around China. “I realised that although there are many books on China,…


‘The China Nexus’: New Book Chronicles CCP’s ‘Human Rights Horrors’

Benedict Rogers had an idea late one night—to write a book that chronicles all of the “human rights horrors” committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that he observed during his three decades of experience as a journalist and human rights campaigner in and around China. “I realised that although there are many books on China,…


‘Dahua Technology’ CCTVs Found to Be Able to Identify Uyghurs and Tibetan Faces

In Hong Kong and mainland China, CCTV cameras are almost everywhere. The Chinese mainland company “Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Ltd.” was recently found by the Internet Protocol Video Market (IPVM), a U.S. video surveillance research organization, that four types of its surveillance cameras have the capability to identify race, skin color, and Uyghurs or Tibetan…


Tibetan Govt in Exile Says Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Draconian’ Zero-COVID Measures Endangering Lives

The Tibetan government-in-exile has taken aim at the “draconian measures” used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to enforce its so-called “zero-COVID policy,” saying the measures are “evidently causing more harm than good.” In a statement issued on Sept. 26, the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in Dharamshala, India, said the CCP’s “mismanagement of the pandemic outbreak…


China Human Rights Concerns: ‘Speak Truth to Power’ at Every Opportunity, Says Longtime Canadian ‘Friend of China’

When Margaret McCuaig-Johnston first began speaking out against the Chinese communist regime’s human rights abuses, the former senior government official had been “a friend of China for 40 years” and had “helped them develop their innovation capacity.” Today, she says “Canadians should speak truth to power every time they meet with Chinese officials.” “The final…


How a Longtime Canadian ‘Friend of China’ Became an Outspoken Critic of Beijing’s Human Rights Record

When Margaret McCuaig-Johnston first began speaking out against the Chinese communist regime’s human rights abuses, the former senior government official had been “a friend of China for 40 years” and had “helped them develop their innovation capacity.” Today, she says “Canadians should speak truth to power every time they meet with Chinese officials.” “The final…


Research Paper Taken Down for Sourcing Non-Consensual DNA Samples From Tibetans and Uyghurs

A respected science journal has withdrawn a study that collected DNA samples from Tibetans and Uyghurs without informed consent. It comes against the backdrop of China’s increasing crackdown on ethnic minorities in Tibet and the northwestern region of Xinjiang, using tactics such as cultural and religious suppression, mass internment, forced labor, and the separation of…


Soft-Pedaling on China’s Atrocities Only Metastasized Its Machinery of Repression: Human Rights Experts

The belief that downplaying Beijing’s human rights abuses can lead to reforms in China has not only validated the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) approach against faith groups such as Falun Gong, but has also licensed it to repeat the atrocities, a paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) says. “Successive Canadian governments, and others around the…