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Tibetan Writer Woeser Detained on Arrival at Lhasa Airport

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2014-08-08 

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Woeser in an undated photo.
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Updated at 2.45 p.m. ET on 2014-08-08

Beijing-based Tibetan poet and writer Tsering Woeser said Chinese Continue reading →

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Tibet: Two Tibetan Writers Released From Prison

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Two Tibetan writers, Jangtse Donkho (pen name: Nyen/”The Wrathful”) and Buddha, who were accused of publishing reactionary and separatist writings on the experience of being Tibetan under Chinese rule, were released on 20 June 2014 Continue reading →

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Voices from Tibet

Posted on 06/15/2014 by | 1 comment

Selected Essays and Reportage

TSERING WOESER AND WANG LIXIONG, EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY VIOLET S. LAW 06.09.14

Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most eloquent, insightful writers on contemporary Tibet. Continue reading →

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Tibetan Monk Who Fled to India Was ‘Tortured’ in Detention

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2014-05-28

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Golog Jigme Gyatso (second from left) speaks to reporters for the first time since his escape at a press Continue reading →

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Tibetan Singer Held After Belting Out Song Calling for Language Protection

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2014-05-26 

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Tibetan singer Gebe in an undated photo.
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A Tibetan singer who rendered a song calling for the protection of the Tibetan language Continue reading →

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China bans Tibetan religious figure from monastic order

Posted on 05/21/2014 by | China bans Tibetan religious figure from monastic order已关闭评论

(TibetanReview.net, May18, 2014) – China has stripped a senior Tibetan religious figure of his monastic robe and also banned him from rejoining or teaching at his monastery in Chamdo (Chinese: Changdu) County of Tibet Autonomous Region, after releasing him from jail on May 5, reported Radio Free Asia (Washington) May 16. Khenpo (Abbot) Lodroe Rabsel was held in late 2011, with a friend named Khenpo Namse Sonam for refusing to cooperate with the Chinese officials conducting patriotic re-education campaigns at their Karma Monastery.

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