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Don't forget to watch this riveting conversation between Gen La and Richard Gere.
Truly worth your time and attention. Thank you, @SaveTibetOrg , for bringing this important story to a wider audience.
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The Ra-Gya Jigme Gyaltsen Grassland (Tsathang) Girls’ School in Golok, Amdo, was among at least three Tibetan schools forcibly closed by Chinese authorities between August–September 2026.
Established to expand educational opportunities for girls from nomadic communities, the school provided instruction in Tibetan language, Buddhist philosophy, science, traditional medicine, and other subjects.
The latest closures of the schools further demonstrates the shrinking space for independent Tibetan language education.
At least three Tibetan schools in Golok, Amdo, were forcibly closed by Chinese authorities between August and September 2026. The closures threaten Tibetan children’s access to mother-tongue education and the preservation of their linguistic and cultural heritage.
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Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
重磅： 《西藏流亡政府驻南非办事处遭汽油弹袭击》
10月14日晚，位于南非森图里昂的西藏办事处及其代表顿珠嘉波的住所遭遇火灾，建筑严重受损，顿珠嘉波被迫从卧室窗户逃生。据顿珠嘉波描述，这是一起汽油弹袭击事件，他认为其背后有政治动机。警方已证实正就此纵火事件展开调查，目前尚无人员被捕。
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
In China, Battle Is Raging for the Soul of Tibet—On edge of Himalayas, tourist boomtown sells Chinese visitors sanitized version of Tibetan culture
@GillSabrie @ZyuelingSH
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Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
🇨🇳#China: The state of #civicspace remains 'closed'. In recent months, #activists and #artists have been arrested or convicted.
There have also been reports of #torture and ill-treatment of activists in detention.
#Censors barred reporting and social media posts linked to the flash flood in #Tibet as surveillance persists, including for foreigners.
More here: web.civicus.org/ChinaOct2026
“We are the closest they can get to the real Tibet,” she said. But “it’s very hard to get the real thing.”
Despite her frustration, Lhamo acknowledges that change is inevitable. “Us locals, we’re changing, too,” she said. “Our culture is disappearing.”
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#Breaking: Over 130 human rights experts issue global call for States to end transnational repression
They urge States, businesses, INTERPOL and international organisations to prevent and combat the spread of transnational repression, warning of its increasing impacts on human rights, democracy and the rule of law and those who take action to defend them.
🔗: ishr.ch/latest-updates/over-…
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
Since taking office in 2012, Xi Jinping has consolidated power in China; but it wasn’t until his speech on the eve of his second term that Xi defined more clearly ‘the China Dream of National Rejuvenation’, with his vision of consolidating the party’s control over everything as an instrument for China to forge a ‘common destiny for humankind’ by 2050.
It set out Xi Jinping’s plan to return China to global preeminence. Xi believes such preeminence will emerge if China can pull off a double pivot in its global strategy: establishing its leadership of the Global South and gaining control of Taiwan. The two are inextricably linked with his ambition, ultimately, of transforming the world order. Yet as important as it is to understand these goals, it is equally important to grasp Xi’s approach to foreign policy – something that the United States and other western powers often fail to.
Read Steve Tsang's (@SOAS_CI) latest analysis on China for the autumn issue of @TheWorldToday, the international affairs magazine of Chatham House.
Article | bit.ly/4r83SAa |
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
A masterclass in standing up to intimidation.
During the Seoul Defense Dialogue 2026, a Chinese military attaché handed Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro a note reiterating Beijing’s claim that the 2016 South China Sea ruling is “illegal, null and void.”
Teodoro read it aloud and dismantled it point by point.
“No binding force” ~ “Because you don’t want to be subjected to UNCLOS.”
“China does not accept the ruling” ~ “Of course, because you lost.”
Then, in Filipino: “Show a little decency. Have a little shame.”
The room applauded.
Teodoro called China’s move “actual coercion, bullying and aggression” and kept the note as a “memento.”
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
Great work from @tchrd_ on repressive, discriminatory new #China govt "ethnic unity" law. Incl details on related "education" "campaign called 'Love-China Seeds planting'.” tibetanreview.net/china-sini…
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy retweeted
China's #cybersecurity police have disclosed 10 typical cases involving online rumors related to the #mudslide that hit the Gyirong Port in Southwest China's #Xizang Autonomous Region, with authorities taking legal action against people who fabricated false disaster information, exaggerated casualty figures and misled the public, in a bid to safeguard the orderly conduct of rescue and relief operations. #misinformation globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1…
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, TCHRD stands in solidarity with the victims and families of those subjected to unlawful, Chinese state-sanctioned repression through enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, beatings, torture and other forms of inhuman treatment, simply for exercising their religious beliefs or preserving their cultural identity.
Over the past decade, TCHRD has documented over 232 known cases of Tibetans subjected to enforced disappearance in Tibet. These documented cases reflect a broader pattern of incommunicado detention, concealment of whereabouts and denial of basic due process, leaving individuals cut off from their families and communities and loved ones without answers about their fate.
From political activists and writers to monks and ordinary Tibetans, enforced disappearance continues to be used as a tool of repression and silencing.
On 30 August, we remember those who have disappeared, stand with the families who continue to seek answers, and call for the truth about the fate and whereabouts of every disappeared person.
China’s new ethnic unity law puts Mandarin and a state-defined Chinese national identity at the heart of education.
Just weeks after it took effect, sources report new Tibetan-language textbooks are being produced across Tsongon, Sichuan and Gansu with traditional Tibetan literary and cultural works reportedly removed.
Read the full story: bit.ly/4giNFV1
China’s new ethnic unity law puts Mandarin and a state-defined Chinese national identity at the heart of education.
Just weeks after it took effect, sources report new Tibetan-language textbooks are being produced across Tsongon, Sichuan and Gansu with traditional Tibetan literary and cultural works reportedly removed.
Education is becoming a key tool in reshaping Tibetan identity.
Read the full story: bit.ly/4giNFV1
