Kunchok Jinpa, who lived for almost 10 years in India before returning to Tibet, is the latest in a string of cases of Tibetans dying at home or in hospitals after suffering torture in Chinese prisons.
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Tibet Fast Facts
About Tibet
Capital: Lhasa
Language: Tibetan
Government (China): Governed by the Chinese Communist Party; the head of state is President Xi Jinping.
Government (Exiled): Centered in Dharamsala, India, includes a popularly elected assembly of deputies, ministers, a cabinet chairman (similar to a prime minister).
Facts
Tibet is an internationally recognized autonomous region within the People’s Republic of China, though many Tibetans dispute the legitimacy of China’s rule.
Tibet is officially called the Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region (TAR).
The Tibet Autonomous Region lies in the Plateau of Tibet, also called the Tibetan Highlands, which also includes portions of China’s Qinghai and Sichuan provinces and the Uygur Autonomous Region Xinjiang. A little more than half of the Plateau of Tibet lies outside of the TAR.
China declares use of minority languages “unconstitutional”
By Choekyi Lhamo
DHARAMSHALA, Jan. 27: Chinese authorities declared the local laws that require the use of spoken and written language of “ethnic minorities” as “unconstitutional”, reported Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) on Wednesday. The National People’s Congress (NPC) announced the work report submitted by the Legal Affairs Committee in January 2020 which further justified the use of Mandarin Chinese as the medium of instruction in ethnic minority areas.
The Dharamshala-based rights organization thwarted CCP’s attempt to neutralise diverse minority communities by justifying the authority of constitutional provisions to review and interpret local regulations. The report presented by the committee’s director Shen Chunyao emphasised the superiority of national laws over local laws in autonomous provinces and regions by stating that all local regulations violate “the country’s m
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