INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Tibetan Man Detained For Sharing Dalai Lama Photo on WeChat

  A Tibetan resident of western China’s Sichuan province was taken into custody by police in July for sharing a photo of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on the popular social media platform WeChat,… Continue…

• Uyghur Inmate Becomes Sixth Identified in Photos of Xinjiang Detention Camp

  A Uyghur inmate in a photograph of scores of men sitting in an internment camp in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been identified as a driver for a cement factory named Mettursun Eziz,… Continue…

• China to give cash rewards to enable aggressive online surveillance, censorship in Tibet

  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 5: The Chinese government in the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) has announced huge monetary incentive for reporting “illegal” online contents as part of its “social supervision strategy to mobilise the general public… Continue…

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Calls for Sanctions Against Xinjiang Party Boss Chen Quanguo

  Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has warned that the U.S. risks losing its moral authority to speak out against violations of religious freedom elsewhere in the world if it does not hold… Continue…