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Arrests in Tibet

July 4, 2020;

Reports have emerged “a large number of arrests” in the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The detentions are believed to relate to a Chinese crackdown on users of the WeChat mobile application, following a Chinese Communist Party notice that threatened up to eight years imprisonment for those sharing “views and information that are deemed harmful to the party and nation”.

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