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Beaten and Arrested

April 6, 2016;

Ten Tibetan men were arrested and three women injured in a protest over a forced land grab in Kanlho, Thewo county in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture on April 1. The local Chinese authorities had forcefully confiscated the land of ten Tibetan families. The Tibetans pleaded for the return of their land for farming, hundreds of police responded with severe beatings and manhandling. The three injured women are in hospital.

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