Nyingtri — Chinese authorities, under various allegations, have shutdown Tibetan schools, including Tibetan vocational schools. To our knowledge, China has closed a dozen Tibetan vocational schools in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) this year, expelling Tibetan teachers, staff and trainers, the latest of which is the "Nyingtri New Dawn Vocational Skills Training School".

Dharamshala — Chinese government has intensified its Sinicisation policy in Tibet by closing Tibetan schools and monasteries and forcing Tibetan children and young monks into state-run Chinese colonial boarding schools. In recent months, the Chinese authorities have also cracked down on Tibetans who promote the Tibetan language through detentions, arrests, harassment, humiliation and imprisonment. The latest is Tashi Nyima, also known as Gang Lhaja, who was detained and beaten while in custody.

Dharamshala — Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) strongly calls on the government of the People's Republic of China to end its assimilation policies in Tibetan areas through colonial boarding schools. Recently, the Chinese government forcibly ordered more than 1,700 young monks from Kirti monastery and two monasteries in Dzoge county - all three monasteries are located in Ngaba in the traditional province of Amdo - to leave monastic life and enrol in Chinese government-run colonial boarding schools in Sichuan province.

Dharamshala — Chinese traffickers continue to abduct children, not only in China but also in Tibet, they are now going into Tibetan areas and starting to abduct Tibetan children. One source said that more than 30 Tibetan children have been abducted and once they have been stolen, it is very difficult to get them back; very recently, around seven-year-old Tibetan girl was abducted in Zamthang county, in Tibet.

Dharamshala — Tibetan rights activist Tsering Tso has once again been detained by the Chinese authorities for protecting the rights of Tibetan monks, when they were banned from pilgrimage to Shigatse, in Tibet. She asked the authorities why Chinese people can travel anywhere but Tibetans cannot travel in their own land.

Dharamshala — Chinese government intensified its systematic policy of eliminating the root of Tibetan identity – the Tibetan language – by implementing a series of measures that have had a significant impact on the linguistic and cultural heritage of the region. These measures include sending Tibetan children to Chinese colonial boarding schools, shutting down Tibetan schools, and arresting Tibetan writers, intellectuals, and teachers.