Tsegon Gyal, a blogger who was arrested in 2016 after publishing an article critical of China’s “restrictive policy of ethnic unity” in Tibetan areas, is in critical condition in a Qinghai hospital. Gyal was released from prison in December 2019 but then landed in hospital the following month requiring surgery. His condition today is considered “even more critical.” Tibetan prison inmates are frequently subjected to brutal treatment in Chinese jails.