From Tibet to Canada: a life standing up against Chinese oppressionTibetan activist Youngdoung Tenzin was sanctioned by Beijing last year for his activism in Europe and CanadaBy Julien Oeuillet / Contributing reporterYoungdoung Tenzin is living history of modern Tibet. The Chinese government on Dec. 22 last year sanctioned him along with 19 other Canadians who were associated with the Canada Tibet Committee and the Uighur Rights Advocacy Project. But already at that age I could understand the repression Tibetans were facing in Tibet,” Tenzin tells the Taipei Times. Tibetan activist Youngdoung Tenzin, posing here in traditional Tibetan clothing, was last year sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. If I wanted to study in Tibet, I would have had to go to a Chinese school and learn Chinese and teach everything in Chinese.

Source: Taipei Times December 25, 2025 17:23 UTC