June 27 (RFA): The GuChuSum group of former Tibetan political prisoners have hit out at the widespread use of torture by China’s ruling Communist Party in a statement. Read More
Portrait of the Chinese Gulag
June 26 (Newsweek): Most political prisoners in China disappear inside prisons, gulags, or “black jails”—under “house arrest” in squalid hotels or under lock and key in psychiatric institutions. Read More
Respite in offing for Tibet’s gold mines?
June 23 (Phayul): In a move that could jeopardise China’s large scale gold mining efforts in Tibet, the London-based World Gold Council announced last week that it had Read More
Dalai Lama devolves formal political authority
May 29 (Tibet.net): The 14th Tibetan Parliament-Exile, after three days of intense deliberations, approved the devolution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s administrative and political powers to the Read More
