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Pema Wangchen, 31, a Tibetan singer who spent around two or three weeks in jail in 2016 and has been in poor health ever since, has died. He was detained when a video of him singing the Tibetan national anthem went viral on social media; he was severely beaten in prison and on his release never regained his health. He died in hospital in Chengdu. He briefly went to school in India and returned to Tibet.
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