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Tighter Information Control in Tibet

May 2, 2020;

Over the past year China is reported to have tightened controls on information flows in Tibet, targeting Tibetans for “sharing news and opinions on social media, and for contacting relatives living in exile”. “It’s much more dangerous [for Tibetans] to speak to foreign journalists or to overseas media,” reports Human Right’s Watch’s Sarah Cook, adding that, “people there are subject to heavier reprisals than in other parts of China”.

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