A number of nuns expelled from Yarchen Gar and Larung Gar, Buddhist universities in Kardze, Kham, who are being held for political re-education, are being subjected to psychological and sexual abuse in Chinese detention centres according to an article by a Tibetan researcher at Tibetan Policy Institute of the Central Tibetan Administration. Following the demolition of residences at Larung Gar, Yarchen Gar faced the mass eviction of monks and nuns this year, a measure designed to restrict the growing influence of the institution.