Students for a Free Tibet-Pune

07/18/2022

Thrilling Notice🔔📢
We are thrilled to announce that SFT-INDIA Free Tibet! Action Camp 2022 will be starting from 9th Oct to 16th Oct, 2022 at Dharamsala, India.
With primary goal to train youths in different fields and equip them with skills, tools, and leadership capacity.
Our training includes Campaign Planning, Non-Violent Direct Action, Climb Training, Media Messaging, Public Speaking, etc.
Registration Deathline : 12th Sept 2022.
Registration Fee : 1000rs ( Food and accommodation included)
For further information, Contact : 9667145772 (Program Director)
Click the link to Register Now!
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeuT6SNQb3.../viewform...

Thrilling Notice🔔📢

We are thrilled to announce that SFT-INDIA Free Tibet! Action Camp 2022 will be starting from 9th Oct to 16th Oct, 2022 at Dharamsala, India.

With primary goal to train youths in different fields and equip them with skills, tools, and leadership capacity.
Our training includes Campaign Planning, Non-Violent Direct Action, Climb Training, Media Messaging, Public Speaking, etc.

Registration Deathline : 12th Sept 2022.
Registration Fee : 1000rs ( Food and accommodation included)

For further information, Contact : 9667145772 (Program Director)

Click the link to Register Now!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuT6SNQb3j8OQbSVfXwSMJaswh_K4bOoUCKsFjrb014uDzwg/viewform?usp=pp_url

07/18/2022

Today 4 Major NGOs based in Dharamala organised the photo action to observe the world day of international justice.
It is significant to observe this day by acknowledging the unjust human rights situations inside Tibet under the dictatorship of the Chinese communist party.
The Tibetans in Tibet have been denied justice and are facing atrocities against basic human rights and freedoms. Many Tibetan martyrs lost their lives under harsh persecution torture, imprisonment, and extrajudicial killing.
The Tibetan nomad and climate crisis activist Anya Sendra was sentenced to a 7-year prison sentence on 6 Dec 2019 for simply resisting China’s failed Tibet policies and pressing for environmental protection and end to local authority corruption.
The photo action today symbolise the injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere. XI jinping's authorities have been abusing the justice all around the world,
On this International justice day, We call upon the international governments, Organizations, world leaders, and global citizens to make China accountable for Denying justice to Tibet and other occupied countries.

06/13/2022

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Since 1960, when Dharamshala became the temporary headquarter of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, it has risen to international fame as “The Little Lhasa" in India. SFT-India organized a "Little Lhasa Program” providing opportunities for students all across the world to explore Tibet’s political condition, its unique culture, heritage and history of Dharamshala.
During the one week course, participants get an opportunity to engage with Tibetan activists, leaders and former political prisoners and visit places like Norbulingka, Dalai Lama's temple, Nechung monastery, Tibetan government in exile, Library of Tibetan works and archives and Tibetan Children’s Village school.

Since 1960, when Dharamshala became the temporary headquarter of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, it has risen to international fame as “The Little Lhasa" in India. SFT-India organized a "Little Lhasa Program” providing opportunities for students all across the world to explore Tibet’s political condition, its unique culture, heritage and history of Dharamshala.
During the one week course, participants get an opportunity to engage with Tibetan activists, leaders and former political prisoners and visit places like Norbulingka, Dalai Lama's temple, Nechung monastery, Tibetan government in exile, Library of Tibetan works and archives and Tibetan Children’s Village school.

02/25/2022

March 10, 2022 will mark the 63rd anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. Make sure to save the date and join a protest near you!
Together, we will continue the fight for freedom and human rights in Tibet. ✊

March 10, 2022 will mark the 63rd anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. Make sure to save the date and join a protest near you!

Together, we will continue the fight for freedom and human rights in Tibet. ✊

02/17/2022

On February 13, 1913, the great 13th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people restored Tibet as a sovereign nation and proclaimed Tibetan independence after the failed invasion of the Manchu army. To mark this historic day, on February 13th, 2022, SFT-India organised a talk by learned Tibetan scholar, Gen Naga Sangye Tandar on “The history of The proclamation of Tibetan Independence Day”. In the face of China’s growing propaganda that distorts Tibet’s history and makes illegitimate claims to its land and its people, Tibetans inside Tibet continue to reclaim Tibet through their protests against Chinese rule. We will join this effort by using this campaign as a platform to honor Tibet’s noble past and shape its future. A global commemoration of this empowering history will help renew spirits, and reaffirm a global vision of a future independent Tibet with the return of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
We’re observing February 13 as a symbolic day that we pledge to mark every year until Tibet is once again free. This is also about challenging China’s lies and propaganda about Tibet in the world and telling truth about Tibet’s current critical situation.

01/07/2022

Global Day of Action: One month countdown to 2022 Beijing Genocide Olympics Games.
OLYMPIC.
Tibetan NGOs joins rights activists representing Tibet, East Turkestan, Hong Kong, Southern Mongolia, China and Taiwan around the world.
The International Olympic Committee has failed to act despite the clear evidence of GENOCIDE, WORSENING HUMAN RIGHTS and POLITICAL BULLYING
Now it is time for Governments, Sponsors and those committed to freedom and justice to say NoBeijing2022 and to push back against China’s reprehensible human rights abuses and global bullying tactics.


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05/04/2021

URGENT COVID-19 TOOLKITS TO SUPPORT TIBETAN FAMILIES IN INDIA! For $48 you can support a Tibetan family in India currently fighting a devastating 2nd wave of coronavirus.
The SFT network has organized this urgent fundraiser to provide COVID-19 toolkits which will go directly to the families who need it most. Being on the ground in India and talking with many healthcare workers, civil society groups, local leaders, and SFT members, we realized that our community urgently needs a ‘COVID-19 home toolkit’ for every family with a positive Covid case.
Your generous donation will make a critical difference to this life and death situation in India, and it will also amplify the local efforts to save lives. Please consider donating today and sharing this fundraiser widely.

URGENT: COVID-19 Toolkits for Tibetan Families in India Release date: M… Dorjee Tseten needs your support for COVID-19 Toolkits for Tibetan Families in India

11/15/2020

This video is an attempt to depict how Tibetans inside Tibet are subjected to extreme torture and brutality under Chinese Communist Regime. Here we have taken the recent cases of three of political prisoners from Driru.
Chinese authorities have sentenced a popular Tibetan singer, Lhundrub Drakpa, to six years in prison for performing a song that criticised repressive government policies in Driru (Ch: Biru) County, Nagchu.Drakpa was detained in May 2019, less than two months after the song, ‘Black Hat’, was released in March. He was sentenced in June this year after more than a year of pretrial detention without any access to legal representation and fair trial rights.
The deteriorating situation in Driru is also evidenced by the custodial death of Lhamo, a Tibetan mother of three, and the ongoing arbitrary detention of her cousin, Tenzin Tharpa, as reported yesterday by Human Rights Watch. The leading international NGO said cases like Lhamo and Tharpa become rarely known outside Tibet due to the extreme restrictions on basic freedoms and a highly securitized environment.
The murder, torture, and arbitrary detention of Lhamo, Drakpa and Tharpa are part of a widespread and systematic attack against ordinary Tibetans in Driru. Evidence collected by exile Tibetans show that these human rights abuses are deliberately designed to affect thousands of Tibetans in Driru in the furtherance of the Chinese state’s ‘stability maintenance’ policy. According to an eyewitness estimate, more than 600 Tibetans from Driru alone have been imprisoned in the past several years at Chushur Prison near Lhasa.
Repressive regulations and directives issued by Driru County authorities since 2013 are further evidence that the attack on civilian population is well organized and not a random occurrence and also that it encompasses both a large number of people and a large geographic area including also the neighbouring Sog (Ch: Suo) County. At a (6 November 2013) public gathering of TAR Armed Police Corps and other high-ranking officials, the then TAR Deputy Party Secretary Wu Yingjie called for the continuous fight to “further strengthen patrol duty, control and grid management” in maintaining stability in Driru.
We urge the international community including democratic governments, United Nations, human rights organisations, and civil society actors to pressure the Chinese government to:
Release Lhundrub Drakpa, Tenzin Tharpa and all other Tibetans unjustly subjected to arbitrary arrests and detention
Allow international observers to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the custodial death of Lhamo and other human rights abuses and ‘crimes against humanity’ in Driru
Provide full and unfettered access to all Tibetan areas, as requested by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Procedures mandate holders
Repeal all legislation, policy and practice that enables extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, and torture
Comply with specific treaty obligations to protect, promote and fulfill human rights pursuant to its ratification of major human rights treaties.

11/02/2020

10/15/2020

Statement from SFT Executive Director, Dorjee Tseten, on the recent appointment of Assistant Secretary Robert A. Destro to be US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues.
“Tibetans inside Tibet and in exile welcome US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's appointment of Assistant Secretary Robert A. Destro to serve as the US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. In occupied Tibet, the Chinese government is determined to wipe out all traces of Tibetan national identity. Tibetans live under extreme repression as they face religious persecution, arbitrary detention, and torture. Further, since January 2020, at least half a million Tibetans have been forced into military-style labor camps. Now more than ever, it is vital that the United States and the global community stand against China’s brutal assault on human rights in Tibet. This appointment is a strong statement that the United States and its people will uphold democracy and freedom by resisting China’s draconian regime, its decades of oppression in Tibet, and its nefarious influence globally.”