Recent news reports have emerged that the Chinese government will destroy Atsok Gompa—another sacred Tibetan monastery—and displace over 15,555 people in the surrounding Drakkar, Kawasumdo, and Mangra counties to build another Chinese mega-dam along the Machu or “Yellow River.” China is advertising...

Over 1,000 Tibetans have been arrested by Chinese police in occupied Tibet for protesting the Chinese government’s construction of a dam that would displace 2,000+ Tibetans from their homes and further ravage Tibet’s environment. Two Tibetans inside Tibet have risked their lives...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just announced that the State Department will restrict the visas of Chinese government officials for forcing over one million Tibetan children into colonial boarding schools. These coercive policies seek to eliminate Tibet’s distinct linguistic, cultural, and...

Recently the United Nations human rights experts have called for transparency from the Chinese government regarding nine wrongfully imprisoned Tibetan environmental human rights defenders. SFT and the Tibet Advocacy Coalition have been relentlessly engaging with the United Nations to raise the issue of Tibet...

The burning death in Sichuan is the 160th known self-immolation in Tibetan regions since 2009. An 81-year-old Tibetan man has died after a self-immolation protest over Chinese rule, setting himself on fire last week at a police station in front of a...

The fate and motivation of the man, identified as Tsering Samdup, remain unknown. A Tibetan man set himself on fire near a police station in a Tibetan region of northwestern China’s Qinghai province and was immediately taken away by authorities with no...