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Relative Arrested

April 20, 2014;

Rikchung, a shop owner in Khangsar town, has been arrested. He was a relative of Thinley Namgyal (pictured) who self-immolated in Tibet’s Tawu region on April 15, and is accused of taking pictures of the self-immolation protest and sending them out. Communication lines in the town have been shut down to blackout information on the latest self-immolation. China has arrested and sentenced several Tibetans for alleged connections with self-immolation protests in Tibet.

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