July 2, 2025: In a keenly anticipated statement ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama reaffirmed the continuation of the centuries-old institution of the Dalai Lama—an announcement carrying deep historical resonance and urgent political significance. The English translation...

April 15, 2025: AFI published an edited transcript of Christianity and the Persecution of Christians in China, a live podcast streamed on March 19, 2025. The report can be downloaded from the AFI website. The complete podcast is available...

  March 1, 2025: President Trump on the first day in office issued a raft of Executive Orders including “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” which called for a “90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for...

February 11, 2025: Asia Freedom Institute released a report entited China’s National Park Project on The Tibetan Plateau: Conservation or Assimilation? What China Can Learn From Other Countries. The statement accompanying the report said “China’s efforts to protect the landscape,...

November 21, 2024: (Karma Samdrup. Source: The Central Tibetan Administration): Tibetan environmentalist and philanthropist Karma Samdrup was released after serving a 15-year prison sentence with five years of deprivation of political rights effective immediately. Based on media reports from...

November 27, 2024: Gangjong Sherig Norbu Lobling, also known as Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational School, was forcibly closed by the Chineses government on July 14, 2024. The school, located in Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, had been operating independently for...

November 25, 2024:  The Christian Science Monitor ran a story wondering if President-elect Trump will let Senator Marco Rubio, his nominee for the Secretary of State, pursue a hard line approach towards China. Here are some excerpts from the...

December 10, 2024: The EU Statement of the EU Delegation in China on the International Human Rights Day said “serious concerns persist regarding civil, cultural, economic, social and political rights” and urged “China to respect, protect, and fulfil human...

Published a position paper written by Kelsang D. Aukatsang, AFI President, titled Reimagining Tibetan Democracy and Governance on September 2, 2024, the 64th anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day. The paper outlines key shifts and issues; recommends a new democracy...

The U.S. State Department’s 2023 International Religious Freedom Report on China, which includes separate section on East Turkestan, Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet, concludes that the Chinese government “continued its multiyear campaign of “Sinicization” to bring all religious doctrine...

The EU and China held the 39th session of joint Human Rights Dialogue in Chongqing on June 16, 2024. The meeting was preceded by a side visit to Tibet from June 13-15.  A press statement released after the meeting...

The 50th G7 Summit was held from June 13-15, 2024 at Borgo Egnazia in the city of Fasano in Apulia, Italy on June 13-15, 2024. The event brought together the Leaders of the seven member States, as well as...

The U.S. Congress passed their bipartisan bill to enhance U.S. support for Tibet and promote dialogue between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Dalai Lama toward a peaceful resolution of the long-standing dispute between Tibet and China....

June 4, 2024: China Digital Times (CDT) reports that the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre was “massively censored within mainland China and Hong Kong.” The CDT article details the extent of censorship on one of the most sensitive...

(Human Rights Watch): Chinese government officials are systematically using extreme forms of pressure to coerce rural Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Since 2016, officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region...

May 1, 2024: ARTICLE 19, an international human rights organization based in England, published a report titled The Digital Silk Road: China and the rise of digital repression in the Indo-Pacific which examines China’s digital infrastructure and governance influence...

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released the Commission’s 2023 Annual Report on human rights conditions and rule of law developments in China. The US Congress created the CECC in 2000 to monitor China’s compliance with international human rights...

Tim Loughton, a sitting MP of Britain’s Conservative Party and former UK government minister, told international media that he was detained for more than seven hours and barred from entry to Djibouti. Loughton, who has been the Conservative MP...

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) held a celebration to mark the 35th birthday of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama in Dharamsala, India. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was born on April 25, 1989 in Lhari Dzong in the Nagchu...

March 8, 2024: The Asia Freedom Institute published a document titled The Next Dalai Lama. Collected Statements, Writings and Documents. The 139-page document is a comprehensive collection of statements made by the Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leaders, the Central...

Freedom House released its Freedom in the World 2024 report on February 29. There are 210 countries and territories ranked according to people’s access to political rights and civil liberties. China with a total score of 9/100 received a...

Large and unprecedented protests erupted in Dege (Ch. Gengqing) in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The Dege area is part of Kham and historical Tibet, but the Chinese government incorporated it into Sichuan province.  Tibetans living in Wangbuding township...

The US House of Representatives passed H.R.533 – Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Conflict Act on February 15, 2024. The legislation sponsored by Rep. James McGoven and introduced on January 26, 2023 passed with 392 yea votes, 28...

The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) published a report titled “Chinese Transnational Repression of Tibetan Diaspora Communities.”  This is the first report of its kind on the issue of the Chinese government’s transnational repression against the...

The human rights record of China was examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on January 23, 2024 in a meeting in Geneva. The first, second and third...

Germany released its long-awaited China Strategy Paper on July 13, 2024. The 64-page document states that China’s economic strategy is “making international production chains more dependent on China” and its foreign policy is “attempting in various ways to reshape...

China Change, a US nonprofit founded by Chinese nationals, interviewed Ai Weiwei, the Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist in May 2023 in Portugal and published the interview in three parts on its website in late June and early...

The Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament, a statutory committee of the Parliament that has responsibility for oversight of the UK Intelligence Community, presented a detailed intelligence threat from China to the UK to Parliament on July...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been expanding the use of exit bans and targeting everyone from human rights defenders to foreign journalists according to a new report from Safeguard Defenders. An Exit Ban is a state-initiated ban on...

Over 60 human rights organizations, bar associations, scholars and Chinese human rights activists marked China Human Rights Lawyers Day on July 10 by remembering the Chinese government’s roundup of over 300 human rights lawyers and legal assistants in the...