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Crackdown in Shigatse

June 5, 2018;

Fourteen people are reported as having been detained in Nyamo Township in Shigatse last month when a peaceful mass appeal by Tibetans against the local County administration sparked a crackdown. The appeal was regarding the decision to review an investigation into the murder of a Tibetan elderly man in 2016. Five of the detained Tibetans were released two weeks later, the others remain in detention. The crackdown continues.

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