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Attempted Suicide

September 10, 2013;

Dolma Yankyi, a woman in Tibet’s Nagchu County, has tried to kill herself following “harassment” by Chinese authorities during a brawl with security personnel stationed at the Shag Rongpo Ganden Dhargyeling monastery which was closed in July. Her husband had been arrested among 50 other protesters. Dolma deliberately crashed her motorcycle and is currently under guard in hospital, no visitors are allowed to see her.

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