Reports Describe Expanding Digital Repression in Tibet

Reports Describe Expanding Digital Repression in Tibet

Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet,” which examined procurement documents from a digital forensics firm integral to the securitization of Tibetans’ digi…

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Tulku Hungkar Dorje’s body to be handed over, cremation directed to take place in Vietnam

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, April 17: The remains of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, a revered Tibetan Buddhist leader and abbot of Lungngon Monastery in Gade County, Golok, who died in Chinese custody while in Vietnam, will be handed over to representatives of his monastery. However, Chinese authorities have reportedly instructed that the cremation ceremony take place in Vietnam and not in his homeland of Tibet. Speaking to Phayul, Ju Tenkyong, Director o…

After abbot’s mysterious death in its custody, China cracks down on his monastery, locals - Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’25) – China has launched a crackdown on Lung-ngon Monastery and surrounding Tibetan villages in Gade (Chinese: Gande) County of Golok (Guoluo) prefecture, Qinghai Province, even as it remains tight-lipped about the circumstance of the death of its abbot Hungkar Dorje in the custody of its visiting police in Vietnam late last month, reported […]

China detains Tibetans for mourning Buddhist leader's mysterious death - IndiaPost NewsPaper

BEIJING: Chinese officials have interrogated and detained local Tibetans who shared photographs and posts on social media mourning the death of a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader, who reportedly died while in custody in Vietnam, as reported by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Authorities in Gade county of Golog prefecture, located in Qinghai province, have placed the monastery of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, who passed away at the age of 56, under constant polic…

China detains Tibetans for mourning Buddhist leader's mysterious death

Chinese officials have interrogated and detained local Tibetans who shared photographs and posts on social media mourning the death of a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader, who reportedly died while in custody in Vietnam, as reported by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Authorities in Gade county of Golog prefecture, located in Qinghai province, have placed the monastery of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, who passed away at the age of 56, under constant police surveil…