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Tortured to Death

June 30, 2016;

Yudruk Nyima, a Tibetan man in his 40s, was reportedly beaten to death while in Chinese police custody. He was arrested in Rokhog village on June 20 while returning home from collecting Yartsa Gunbu (caterpillar fungus). Police accused him of being in possession of a gun and claimed he died on his way to hospital. Nyima is from the Zamkha division of Zakhog village in Derge county, Kham Kardze.

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