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Released After Five Years

January 29, 2021;

Tashi Wangchuk, a Tibetan language rights activist who was jailed in 2016, has been released from prison and returned to his family in Trindu County in Yushu, Qinghai. Rights campaigners have expressed concerns for his safety and wellbeing, saying his sentence will effectively continue because he faces a further 5-year deprivation of political rights and will not have the rights to “free expression, association or publication.” He will also remain under constant surveillance.

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