New Delhi — More than 50 Tibetan activists from the Tibetan Youth Congress were detained by the Delhi Police while protesting against Xi Jinping’s participation in the BRICS Summit and his genocide policies in Tibet including the latest the enforcement of the "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress'. They said, "Xi Jinping is the primary architect of the ongoing cultural genocide in Tibet and bears direct responsibility for the systematic loss of Tibetan lives both through state-sanctioned violence and the avoidable tragedies of recent environmental disasters caused by uncontrolled engineering on the Tibetan Plateau."
Members of Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) from North to South zone, and hundreds of Tibet held a largest protest against Xi ahead of his visit to the BRICS Summit, on September 11, 2026. Then over 50 Tibetan activists from TYC held sudden protest outside of the venue of the BRICS Summit was held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi at 7:50 PM, to protest against the Chinese President Xi Jinping's crackdown on Tibetans inside Tibet, the Colonial boarding school, the ongoing human rights violations and repression in Tibet, the erosion of Tibetan culture, language and religious freedom, the detention of Tibetan political prisoners, and China’s interference in the recognition of the future 15th Dalai Lama.
More than 50 Tibetan activists from the Tibetan Youth Congress were detained by the Delhi Police while protesting against Xi Jinping’s participation in the BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on September 12, 2026.
TYC said, “The protest call on attention to the ongoing human rights violations and repression in Tibet, the erosion of Tibetan culture, language and religious freedom, the detention of Tibetan political prisoners, and China’s interference in the recognition of the future 15th Dalai Lama.”
The Tibetan Youth Congress also raised serious concerns regarding the “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law,” China’s large-scale exploitation of the Tibetan Plateau, dam construction and diversion of Tibet’s rivers, and the growing environmental and water-security implications for India and other countries across Asia.
The protest reaffirmed that the question of Tibet remains directly connected to India’s national security, regional stability, human rights, religious freedom, and the future of Asia.
The protesters further highlighted the following key points:
• Protest against the visit of the Dictator, Chinese President Xi Jinping
• Raising the issue of Tibet and China’s ongoing repression
• Opposition to the “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law”
• Demand for the release of Tibetan political prisoners, including His Holiness the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
• Opposition to Chinese interference in the recognition of the 15th Dalai Lama
• Concerns over China’s exploitation of the Tibetan Plateau and its rivers and Call for protection of transboundary rivers and Asia’s water security
• Appeal to India and the international community to address the question of Tibet in BRICS Summit.
San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress also organised a peace March from Golden Gate Bridge to Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, on September 12,2026, to protest against the China’s so-called “Ethical and Progress Law”, protest against the repressive policies in Tibet and demand freedom for Tibetans.
