SAN FRANCISCO (December 27, 2017) – Tibetan independent filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen arrived at San Francisco International Airport on Christmas Day, 2017. He has been reunited with his family after having been separated for more than ten years during which he was held incommunicado, detained, imprisoned, and subjected to deprivation of political rights in the People’s Republic of China. He conveys his thanks to the governments, organizations, and individuals who made this day

Protesters call on Obama to publicly raise Tibet with Xi San Francisco Team Tibet* plans protest at SF Chinese Consulate (San Francisco) Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first-ever state visit to the White House to meet President Obama. This comes at a time when at least 143 Tibetans inside Tibet have self-immolated as a means of protest against Xi’s government, calling for freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. And just recently, on July 12, one o

The jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was released this morning after serving a six-year imprisonment sentence, said Gyaljong Tsetrin, Dhondup’s cousin who lives in Switzerland.

Here are statements by Tashi Lhunpo Monastery on the the occasion of the Panchen Lama's 25th birthday in English and Tibet. OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY ON THE 25TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS HOLINESS THE 11TH PANCHEN LAMA 25 April 2014, Bylakuppe Today, we are gathered here to observe the auspicious 25th birthday of His Holiness the 11th Panchen Lama in an event organized by the Central Tibetan Administration's (CTA) Regional Organising Committee of the 25t

Senators Mark Udall (CO), Marco Rubio (FL) and Dianne Feinstein (CA) have circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter asking their fellow senators to sign their letter. Please contact your senators to urge them to sign the Udall-Rubio-Feinstein letter on Tibet. Note that we have a quick turnaround, as the deadline is April 8 for senators’ signatures, so that it gets to Secretary Kerry before he departs for his trip. Here is the email id of Senator Barbara Boxer's Senior Foreign Poli

03/20/2013 Lhamo Tso, wife of imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, granted US Political Asylum Press Release Contact: Giovanni Vassallo, 415-264-3264, giovanni@friends-of-tibet.org (March 18, 2013) On February 27, Lhamo Tso was granted political asylum by the United States of America in San Francisco. The idea to seek asylum in US came up last July when the Bay Area Friends of Tibet (BAFoT) along with other groups invited Lhamo Tso to the United States and organized

Press Release: Dhondup Wangchen Transferred to Another Chinese Prison January 21, 2013 Zurich, January 21, 2013: In an unusual move, it has been learned by Filming for Tibet that filmmaker and political prisoner Dhondup Wangchen has been transferred from Xichuan labour camp to Qinghai Provincial Women’s Prison, the main prison for women in China’s Qinghai province [1]. Following a visit to Dhondup Wangchen by close family members on January 15, 2013, Dhondup Wangchen spoke of

From: bayareafriendsoftibet [mailto:bayareafriendsoftibet-bounces@tibet.org] On Behalf Of giovanni@friends-of-tibet.orgSent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:09 AMTo: BAFoTSubject: [BAFoT] [FWD: Urgent: Tibetans Sentenced for "inciting self-immolations"] Please call/email/write Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and/or John Kerry (http://contact-us.state.gov/app/answers/list) as well as the Chinese Ambassador to the US, Ambassador Zhang Yesui, (http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/sg

Press Releasehttp://tibet.net/2013/01/24/sikyong-dr-lobsang-sangays-appeal-tibetans-n...24 January 2013 With profound grief, I report that the number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest against repression in Tibet is now reaching 100. In 2012 alone, 83 Tibetans self-immolated, and twenty-eight of these occurred within the single month of November. Now in the new year of 2013, I am saddened to inform you that three Tibetans have set themselves on fire. The m

60 Years of China's Failed Policies in Tibet It is over 60 years since China's army invaded Tibet. In May 2011 China will mark what – in a gross distortion of events – it calls the ‘Peaceful Liberation of Tibet’. For Tibetans and their supporters, it is 60 years since the People’s Republic of China moved aggressively to consolidate its military occupation of Tibet. The ‘17 Point Agreement’, signed on 23 May 1951 by the Chinese government and by the Tibetan government under du