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Discrimination Against Tibetans

November 30, 2022;

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy has released a report giving evidence of discriminatory treatment of Tibetans under China’s Covid-19 pandemic lockdown rules. TCHRD’s Tibetan sources spoke of arbitrary detentions of local Tibetans: when 200 protestors were arrested, the Tibetans were held for 14 days under harsh conditions while Chinese protestors were given lighter punishments. They catalogue disproportionate restrictions on Tibetan cyberspace with severe measures enforced to prevent information sharing.

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