Tibetan Political Prisioner

  • Tibetan Women, Nuns Face Brutal Sexual Abuse in China’s Reeducation Camps

    Tibetan Women, Nuns Face Brutal Sexual Abuse in China’s Reeducation Camps

    There is a growing protest against China’s infamous Transformation or Re-education camps across the world. But there are more revelation about Tibetan women including Buddhist nuns subjected to brutal sexual abuse in those camps. The ordeals of the victims are very saddening and people are very much shocked about such serious systematic abuse of human…

  • Longest Serving Tibetan Political Prisoner Takna Jigme Passes Away at 91

    Longest Serving Tibetan Political Prisoner Takna Jigme Passes Away at 91

    Takna Jigme Sangpo was the longest-serving political prisoner of Tibet, having spent 37 years in a prison near Lhasa. He passed away in the morning of October 17, 2020 at an elderly care home in Turbenthal, Switzerland, where he had been based since receiving political asylum in 2003. Tibetans and Tibet supporters across the world…

  • Ama Adhe Tortured for 27 Years in Chinese Prisons, Passes Away at 92

    Ama Adhe Tortured for 27 Years in Chinese Prisons, Passes Away at 92

    One of the longest serving Tibetan political prisoners, Ama Adhe has passed away at 92 in India. The former political prisoner passed away at her residence in McLeod Ganj, North India on Monday morning. According to people close to her, she was not suffering from any health issues and therefore she has passed away due…

  • Tibetan Nun Dies in Hospital Corridor of Ailments from Prison

    Tibetan Nun Dies in Hospital Corridor of Ailments from Prison

    Tibetan nun dies in the corridor of the hospital while waiting to receive treatment for ailments she developed from her being subjected to torture and poor living conditions while serving imprisonment. The Tibetan nun was sentenced to imprisonment after she protested against Chinese rule over Tibet and went through torture during the ordeal.

  • Former Tibetan Prisoner Whereabouts Unknown After Protest in Lhasa

    Former Tibetan Prisoner Whereabouts Unknown After Protest in Lhasa

    A former Tibetan political prisoner has disappeared into custody after carrying a protest in Lhasa on Sunday according to the report in the Radio Free Asia. Tibetan reliable news sources confirmed that the former Tibetan political prisoner staged a peaceful protest against Chinese occupation of Tibet in Lhasa and since then his whereabouts are unknown.

  • Tibetan Girl Denied School Admission Over Father’s Free Tibet Protest

    Tibetan Girl Denied School Admission Over Father’s Free Tibet Protest

    A Tibetan girl has been denied admission to a school over the fact that her father had participated in a protest against the Chinese government in the northwestern China’s Gansu province nine years ago. The father who was released from prison in 2013 is now bedridden with a failing health condition at his home in…

  • Tibetan Political Prisoner Detained A Day After Release

    Tibetan Political Prisoner Detained A Day After Release

    A Tibetan writer Gangkye Drubpa Kyab, a political prisoner at the Sichuan’s Minyak Rangakha prison was freed by the Chinese authorities on September 16. The writer was sentenced to prison term of five and half year. Surprisingly, the authorities released the writer after serving four years, one and half years earlier than the sentence, urging…

  • Tibetan Monk Jailed For Having Dalai Lama Photo In His Phone

    Tibetan Monk Jailed For Having Dalai Lama Photo In His Phone

    A monk in Tibet named Gomar Choephel, 43 was on Feb. 17 sentenced by a People’s Immediate court in Malho (Hangman) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to two years of jail term for sending photos of the Dalai Lama from his phone to social media and keeping it in his personal possession.

  • Portrait of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

    Portrait of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

    Ama Dolma la(name changed) is in her 70s, but she had been standing continuously for an hour, by holding a half burnt candle tightly in her hand, though the flame on that doesn’t seem to be so strong as the one inside her. However she was standing still among the dozens of Tibetan youth who…