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Arrests in Lhasa

March 21, 2020;

Ten people have been arrested in Lhasa for violating government measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Lhasa police are reported to have registered seven instances of people violating these measures, but there are press reports that critics are saying that these government policies are “a guise for politically motivated harassment detentions”. The Tibet Daily reported, “Those guilty people were given a trial and sentenced in accordance with the law.”

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