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Mass Arrest

By Contact Staff /  February 8, 2013;

In Huangnan (Tibetan: Malho) Prefecture of Qinghai Province, 70 Tibetans have been taken into custody as “criminal suspects”, and 12 of them formally arrested in connection with self-immolations that took place in Nov 2012. According to the head of a special Chinese police team investigating the self-immolations, sending personal information, such as photos of the victims, overseas, amounts to promoting self-immolations. So is praying for the self-immolation dead and wounded.

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