西藏寄宿学校问题证人洛桑嘉措在加拿大遭中国诉讼文书送达：西藏行动研究所称前雇主云南师范大学索赔约 20 万加元，属报复性诉讼与跨国镇压Tibetan boarding-schools eyewitness Gyal Lo served with Chinese lawsuit papers in Canada: Tibet Action Institute says former employer Yunnan Normal University seeks about CAD 203,000 in retaliatory case

据西藏行动研究所 10 月 29 日新闻稿，洛桑嘉措曾是西藏与中国内地的大学教授，现为全球最著名的西藏人权倡导者之一，也是西藏儿童在强制寄宿学校制度下处境的首要证人。研究所称，针对他的行动已持续多年：其在西藏的家人遭到骚扰；中国官方媒体点名攻击他；有人设法抹黑他的学术声誉；网上出现诽谤性描绘；并在多伦多与日内瓦发生疑似监视与恐吓事件；如今则发展为滥用国际法律程序。洛桑嘉措在新闻稿中说：“我逃离西藏，是为了能够自由发声，讲述中国强制性的殖民寄宿学校制度如何把藏人儿童与家人分离、剥夺他们的母语、文化认同与宗教价值。现在，中国的跨国镇压已经跟到了我在多伦多的家门口。但中国政府永远无法让我噤声。”研究所估计，约一百万名 4 至 18 岁的藏人儿童生活在中国在西藏的寄宿学校中。[1]

新闻稿的编辑注释披露了诉讼的完整时间线：2026 年 9 月 23 日，洛桑嘉措的妻子收到中国司法部国际法律合作中心发出的法律文书，文书详述云南师范大学对洛桑嘉措提起的诉讼，并附有要求其出席 2026 年 9 月 15 日在中国举行的一场听证会的传票；这是洛桑嘉措首次知晓该诉讼程序。文书显示，云南师范大学 2023 年 6 月首次提起劳动仲裁主张；在该主张及后续主张被驳回后，于 2025 年 1 月提起本次诉讼。云南师范大学索赔约 20 万加元（人民币 965,134.52 元）；这一索赔要求最早出现于 2020 年 10 月，当时校方以中期绩效考核为借口终止其合同，正值其关于藏人教育的研究与倡导招致日益加剧的政治压力之际。洛桑嘉措准备对解聘提起法律挑战时，被警告该案出于政治动机、其生命面临风险，遂于 2020 年 12 月逃往加拿大。[1]

研究所主任莱顿·泰通在新闻稿中说：“这起毫无根据的法律行动的时机很能说明问题：它始于 2023 年，就在洛桑嘉措的倡导帮助促成联合国历史性地呼吁中国废除其在西藏的强制寄宿学校制度之后。这显然是一起针对揭露北京暴行的西藏人权捍卫者的报复案件——卡尼总理与加拿大必须表明立场。”研究所倡导经理切米·拉姆（Chemi Lhamo）补充说，加拿大与其他国家政府把人权议题降格为私下交涉、未能在北京公开加倍镇压时予以回击，“为这些发生在本国土地上的攻击打开了大门”，敦促各国政府紧急扭转路线。新闻稿还指出，加拿大政府虽在去年的七国集团峰会上把跨国镇压列为优先事项，却未能公开谴责中国新的《促进民族团结进步法》，包括其严重的人权影响与潜在的域外效力。[1]

新闻稿特别指出此案令人担忧的一个法律背景：中国最近通过的新法律主张有权追究世界任何地方、任何国籍的人的法律责任。研究所称，《促进民族团结进步法》的条文如此宽泛，以至于仅仅主张藏人自己的语言或独特文化，都可能被视为违反中国法律——无论是对西藏境内的藏人还是流亡藏人。新闻稿还把此案放在更广的背景里：权利倡导者称，针对全球藏人权利捍卫者的行动正在升级，手段日益激进乃至暴力，包括自 7 月以来达赖喇嘛驻南非代表两次遭燃烧瓶袭击（本站 10 月 19 日已收录第二次袭击），以及恐吓活动人士、干扰活动的做法；并举例称，2024 年 12 月 22 日，中国制裁了加拿大境内的西藏委员会、维吾尔权利倡导项目及与之相关的 20 名个人。新闻稿援引自由之家的评估，称中国是全球跨国镇压的头号实施者。[1]

核实说明与本站关联：本记录的核心事实——西藏行动研究所 10 月 29 日新闻稿的存在与内容、文书送达的时间与方式、云南师范大学诉讼的索赔金额与时间线（2020 年 10 月解聘与首次索赔、2023 年 6 月仲裁、2025 年 1 月起诉、2026 年 9 月 23 日送达与 9 月 15 日听证传票）、洛桑嘉措本人的表态、研究所负责人的表态与约一百万寄宿儿童的估计——均来自该新闻稿的单篇全文；“报复性／虚假诉讼”的定性系研究所主张，诉讼实体是非未经裁决，新闻稿未载校方或中方回应，本记录全程保留归属。传票听证日期早于送达日期一节，新闻稿未作解释，本记录如实载明。南非代表驻地遭燃烧瓶袭击一事本站 10 月 19 日已收录，本记录仅作背景引用、不重复成条。本站 10 月 21 日收录的果洛三所藏语学校被关闭属同一地区议题的不同事件，本记录与之并列、不串案。本记录定性为持续核实，将继续跟进诉讼进展与加拿大政府的回应。[1]

According to the Tibet Action Institute's October 29 release, Dr. Gyal Lo is a former university professor in Tibet and China and one of the most prominent Tibetan human rights advocates in the world today, and the foremost witness and voice on the situation of Tibetan children living under Chinese rule. The Institute says it has documented intensifying efforts to discredit, intimidate and silence him, including harassment of his family members in Tibet, Chinese state media attacks on him by name, efforts to discredit his academic reputation, defamatory depictions online, incidents of suspected surveillance and intimidation in Toronto and Geneva, and now, abuse of international legal processes. Dr. Gyal Lo said in the release: 'I fled Tibet so that I could speak out freely about how China's coercive colonial boarding school system is separating Tibetan children from their families and dispossessing them of their mother tongue language, cultural identity, and religious values. Now China's transnational repression has followed me to my doorstep in Toronto. But the Chinese government will never succeed in silencing my voice.' The Institute estimates that approximately one million Tibetan children aged 4 to 18 live in China's colonial boarding schools. [1]

The release's notes for editors set out the full timeline of the lawsuit: on September 23, 2026, Dr. Gyal Lo's wife was served with legal documents from the International Legal Cooperation Center of China's Ministry of Justice, detailing a lawsuit against Dr. Gyal Lo by his former employer, Yunnan Normal University, and including a summons to appear at a hearing in China on September 15, 2026; this was the first time Dr. Gyal Lo became aware of the proceedings. The documents show the university first filed a labour arbitration claim in June 2023; after this and subsequent legal claims were rejected, they launched the current lawsuit in January 2025. The university is seeking approximately CAD 203,000 (RMB 965,134.52) — a demand first made in October 2020, when officials used a mid-term performance assessment as a pretext to terminate his contract amid escalating political pressure over his research and advocacy on Tibetan education. As he prepared a legal challenge to his dismissal, Dr. Gyal Lo was warned that the case was politically motivated and his life was at risk, prompting him to flee to Canada in December 2020. [1]

Institute director Lhadon Tethong said in the release: 'The timing of this baseless legal action is telling: it was initiated in 2023 just after Dr. Gyal Lo's advocacy helped secure historic UN calls for China to abolish its coercive residential schools in Tibet. This is clearly a case of retaliation against a Tibetan human rights defender for exposing Beijing's abuses — Prime Minister Carney and Canada must take a stand.' Advocacy manager Chemi Lhamo added: 'Canada and other governments have opened the door for these attacks on their own soil by relegating human rights issues to private exchanges and failing to push back as Beijing openly doubles down on repression. They urgently need to reverse course.' The release also noted that, despite making transnational repression a priority at last year's G7 Summit, the Canadian government has failed to publicly condemn China's new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, including its grave human rights implications and potential extraterritorial reach. [1]

The release flags a further legal concern: because of China's recent adoption of a new law that asserts authority to hold people legally responsible for violations anywhere in the world, regardless of their citizenship, the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is so broad, the Institute says, that just advocating for Tibetans' own language or distinct culture could be viewed as a violation of Chinese law — both for Tibetans in Tibet and those living in exile. The release places the case in a broader context: rights advocates say the case reflects an escalating campaign against Tibetan rights defenders worldwide using increasingly aggressive and sometimes violent tactics, including two firebomb attacks on the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa since July (the second of which this site recorded on October 19), and efforts to intimidate activists and disrupt events; and, for example, on December 22, 2024, China sanctioned the Canada-based Tibet Committee, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project and twenty individuals associated with the organisations. The release cites Freedom House's assessment naming China the world's leading perpetrator of transnational repression. [1]

Verification note and links to this site's records: the core facts — the existence and content of the Tibet Action Institute's October 29 release, the timing and manner of service, the Yunnan Normal University claim's amount and timeline (October 2020 termination and first demand, June 2023 arbitration, January 2025 lawsuit, September 23, 2026 service with a September 15 hearing summons), Dr. Gyal Lo's own statement, the Institute's officers' statements, and the estimate of about one million boarding-school children — all come from the single full text of that release; the 'retaliatory' or 'bogus' characterisation is the Institute's claim, the merits of the lawsuit are unadjudicated, and the release carries no response from the university or Beijing, with attribution preserved throughout. The hearing-date-before-service-date anomaly is reported as stated, since the release does not explain it. The firebombing of the South African representative's residence was already recorded by this site on October 19 and is cited here only as background, not repeated as a separate record. This site's October 21 record on the closure of three Tibetan schools in Golok concerns the same broad theme but a different episode, listed alongside this record without merging cases. This record is graded 'under ongoing verification' and will follow the lawsuit's progress and any Canadian government response. [1]