The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, raised the issue of Tibet in his opening statement at the UN Human Rights Council. He mentioned the deaths in detention of Tibetan religious leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche in 2015, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo earlier this year and activist Cao Shunli in 2014 as well as imprisoned Tibetan language rights activist Tashi Wangchuk.