Seven years after triggering international condemnation by violating a 'gentlemen's agreement' and handing over a group of fleeing Tibetan refugees to China, Nepal has again deported three more fugitives under growing Chinese pressure.Two Tibetan monks from Korchak monastery in Tibet, located close to the border with Nepal, and a woman, who was probably a government official, were sent back in an extraordinary way, involving flying them back in a helicopter under the escort of a Nepali politician.The two monks were identified as Dawa, 20, and Dorjee, 21, while the woman was a 22-year-old ident

Wu Xuewei (吴雪伟), husband of Shanghai petitioner Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤), told Human Rights in China (HRIC) that Mao has been suffering serious physical abuse in the Anhui Provincial Women’s Reeducation-Through-Labor (RTL) Camp, where Mao is serving an 18-month sentence.Wu stated that Mao told him during a brief meeting at the camp on July 21 that the abuses include: frequent beatings carried out by inmates who were encouraged and directed by camp police officers; being hit on the head by a chair twice; being lifted and pulled by her arms and legs and thrown repeatedly against the floor; not being a

Outspoken Uyghur economics professor Ilham Tohti said the family of journalist and webmaster Gheyret Niyaz is distraught by the news of his verdict on charges of "endangering state security.""[His wife] Risalet and his mother are both very sad. Risalet said that no one can understand why the government gave him 15 years in jail, because he is a member of the Communist Party," he said."He always worked to foster communication between the government and the Uyghur people."

Seventeen Tibetan monks of Shag Rongpo monastery in Nagchu county have been forced to leave their monastery after Chinese authorities turned down their repeated requests not be subjected to patriotic re-education and denunciation of the Dalai Lama on July 17, Ngawang Tharpa, an exile Tibetan with contacts in Nagchu said.According to information received by Ngawang, Chinese police had arrested the monastery’s head lama Dawa Rinpoche Khenrab Wangchuk Samten Tenpai Gyaltsen and four others, identified as Tashi Dhondup and three monks namely Ngawang Jangchup, Ngawang Thokmay and Dhungphug from Lha

The 73-page report, "‘I Saw It with My Own Eyes': Abuses by Security Forces in Tibet, 2008-2010," is based on more than 200 interviews with Tibetan refugees and visitors conducted immediately after they left Tibet, as well as fresh, not previously reported, official Chinese sources.The report details, through eyewitness testimonies, a broad range of abuses committed by security forces both during and after protest incidents, including using disproportionate force in breaking up protests, proceeding to large-scale arbitrary arrests, brutalizing detainees, and torturing suspects in custody.

China National Gold Group Corp (CNGG), China’s second largest gold producer, said Monday the first phase of its “Gyama polymetallic mine” in Lhasa began production Monday.Tibetan residents from Gyama township last year reportedly petitioned the local government to put an immediate halt to the mining project in the area. The local government, however, is said to have paid no heed to the petition, and the whole region remained under heavy military surveillance, with imposition of severe restrictions on communication to outside world and people visiting the region.

Yet another large-scale violent clash has broken out between angry villagers and police over land grabs by government officials in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, this time involving tens of thousands of protesters. Local media made no mention of the incident.During the five-day standoff between July 14 and July 18, several thousand villagers took over the government building while the government called in riot police. At one point the crowd of angry protesters grew to as many as twenty to thirty thousand.

On America’s Independence Day of Jul 4, five Tibetans and three Westerners took off from Independence Hall, Philadelphia, for a 150-mile “March for Tibet's Independence”.The marchers, who are aged 18 to 76, proceeded through Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, finally concluding in front of the Chinese Embassy, Washington, DC, on July 13 with a demonstration.Along the way, the marchers were joined by supporters from around the United States at various stages.

About 2,000 or more current and retired staff and workers of "Jilin Deda Company, Ltd." who are unhappy over corruption by a former chairman of the company and infringement of workers' rights and interests, began besieging and attacking the headquarters of the government of Jilin Province yesterday morning.There were bloody clashes with several hundred special police and Armed Police personnel.The protest was still under way today. The clashes have resulted in injury to at least 20 people.

Chinese authorities are demolishing an area in the northwestern city of Urumqi, home to migrants they blame for disrupting social order, state media said Sunday, a year after deadly ethnic riots.The Heijiashan area of the city in Xinjiang province, which was formerly home to 200,000 people, will be replaced by a new residential development, the official Xinhua news agency said, describing the area as a "hotbed of poverty and crime".
Heijiashan was one of the flashpoints for the violence that erupted on July 5, 2009 in Urumqi between mainly Muslim Uighurs and the majority Han Chinese.

A 64-year-old woman has died from torture-related injuries while being held in a Beijing labor camp, the Falun Dafa Information Center has learned.According to reports from China, Ms. Geng Jin was tortured to death at the Women's Forced Labor Camp in Beijing's Daxing district on June 10, 2010.Family members say they last saw Geng alive in April 2010 when visiting her at the camp. According to family members, Geng was very frail at the time, requiring two people to support her as she walked. Requests for medical parole made by her family both before and during the April visit were denied.

Tibetans and supporters of their freedom struggle across the free world marked the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday Jul 6 with prayers, cultural festivals and other forms of public gatherings that were marked by both gaiety and solemnity.In Dharamsala, continuous rainfall failed to deter Tibetans, tourists and members of the local host community from filling up the Tsuglakhang courtyard where the exile Tibetan government’s official function was held.

In order apparently to emphasize and publicize the imperative of the atheist Chinese government’s final say in the intensely religious matter concerning the recognition and installation of reincarnations of Tibetan Buddhist masters, China on Jul 4 and 5 made much of the selection of the 6th “Living Buddha” Dezhub in Lhasa.A four-year-old candidate with the secular name Losang Doje was selected on Jul 4 as the reincarnation in accordance with the Regulation on Reincarnation of Living Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism, issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, and with historical conven

Chinese authorities in Zoege County, Sichuan Province, have arrested seven Tibetans on June 27.The arrested Tibetans, all elected leaders of various divisions or villages in the locality, are Choelho from Thama Dewa, Konlho from Kyangtsai Goeru, Atam from Kyangtsei Kegyued, Lhago from Chunag Drokra, Jigjhey Kyap from Zsaru Toema, Lochey from Zsaru Medhma, Dorjee Tsering from Rarong Tsering.A Tibetan monk at Kirti monastery said some Tibetan residents living around Tagtsang Lhamo Kirti monastery in Zoege County had expanded their houses a few years ago by encroaching public road .