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Monk Dies After Torture

April 25, 2020;

A Tibetan monk who was “severely tortured” for three months “in a detention center in Lhasa” has passed away after Chinese authorities “only let him go because it was pretty clear he was about to die”. Gendun Sherab is reported to have died on April 18 having originally been detained in 2017 “on the charge of sharing and disseminating politically sensitive documents”.

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