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Pilgrim Disappears

April 16, 2018;

Lhamo Dolkar, 60, a Tibetan woman on a pilgrimage from her hometown Bora, in Sangchu County, to Lhasa, has gone missing. She was travelling with relatives when she was taken away by police on March 28. She has not been heard of since. There is speculation that her detention is related to a visit she made to a Tibetan political prisoner in jail six years ago.

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