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Dharamshala, India — The recent travel ban preventing Chinese people including their students from traveling abroad is completely different than what we saw years of the complete lockdown in the occupied territories of Tibet.

As the dust settles on the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress, all indicators point to China, under Xi Jinping, setting out to develop into a more prosperous but authoritarian state at home and a more assertive presence on the global stage.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the photographers community are mobilizing for Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist also known as Shawkan, who is facing the possibility of death by hanging.

More than 20,000 Tibetans are currently living in Nepal as refugees, among them members of the Tibetan government-in-exile. China’s growing influence on Nepalese politics could make life for them increasingly difficult.

On 28 March 2018, the Tibet Bureau submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR) in the framework of the 31st Universal Periodic Review of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) - a report to which the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), jointly with other Tibetan activist groups and other parties, contributed.

 “Achievements are predominant, mistakes are secondary”:
the Panchen Lama’s meetings with Li Weihan and Zhou Enlai about his 70,000 character report on conditions in Tibet