Tibetan rights advocate detained over ‘illegal’ WeChat posts

Tsering Tso hospitalised in 2017 (Photo- TCHRD)

By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Dec. 7: A Tibetan social worker named Tsering Tso was forcibly detained from her home in Xining on Nov. 12 by ten officers and taken to the Trikha County detention centre over ‘illegal’ WeChat posts, reported the Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). She was subjected to a […]

Tibetan writer arrested, whereabouts remain unknown

Tibetan writer Gendun Lhundrup in an undated photo (Photo- RFA)

By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Dec. 7: A Tibetan writer and poet named Gendun Lhundrup was reportedly arrested by police in eastern Tibet in the so-called Qinghai province on Wednesday. Radio Free Asia news service said, citing a source, that Lhundrup, a former monk at Rongwo monastery in Rebgong county in Malho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture has […]