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Five Detained

October 17, 2022;

Five Tibetan men were detained on October 13 after performing their song about His Holiness the Dalai Lama during an online musical contest in Golog [Ch: Guoluo] in Amdo [Ch: Qinghai], reports the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. They are singer Derab, the song’s composer and three others with them at the time; all except the composer, who is unidentified, have been released. Derab has been banned indefinitely from performing.

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