Elected representatives of the 17th TPiE set to meet to resolve parliamentary deadlock

By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Sept 16:  Three months into the parliamentary deadlock, the elected representatives of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile are set to meet on Sept. 27 to deliberate on ways to resolve the ongoing crisis that started from June 8. The impasse is a result of parliamentarians splitting up for two oath-taking ceremonies; 21 MPs […]

Enforced disappearances in Tibet a ‘worrying pattern’: UN experts

By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Sept 16: Four independent UN human rights experts and bodies have called the rising case of detained Tibetans a “worrying pattern of arbitrary and incommunicado detentions, closed trials, and unknown charges and verdicts against the Tibetan religious minority in China, some of them amounting to enforced disappearances.” The US-based International Campaign […]