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Chinese Clampdown in Tibet

June 17, 2020;

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy’s annual report on the situation inside Tibet has described China as continuing “with its policy of crushing any political dissent”. The report states that “throughout the year [2019], Chinese police forces and surveillance teams moved into monasteries and villages to monitor Tibetan residents”, with facial-recognition software “deployed to suppress political protests against the increased clampdowns on civil and political rights”.

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