Thubten Yeshi, a Tibetan farmer and former political prisoner, passed away on 28 September in Lhasa at the age of 74.

Gonmo Kyi, the sister of imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, has shared a new video talking about her efforts to raise her brother’s case with authorities. In the video, released 24 September ...

A former librarian of the renowned Kirti Monastery has been sentenced in a secret trial to three years in prison after being held in incommunicado detention for a year. Tibet Watch learned that the ...

A Tibetan monk was sentenced to one and a half years in prison in August following a secret trial. Prior to his trial, Jampa Choepel spent half a year in arbitrary detention. Jampa was arrested in ...

Since March 2009, more than 150 people are known to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet to protest against the repressive Chinese occupation. Self-immolation protests peaked in 2012 when more ...