CHINA-TIBET: POLICE IN TIBETAN TOWNSHIP IN SICHUAN ARREST 60 PEOPLE FOR POSSESSION OF DALAI LAMA'S PHOTOGRAPH
Citing Tibetan sources inside China, Radio Free Asia (RFA) on August 26 reported that police in
Dza Wonpo township in the Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in
Sichuan province on August 22 arrested about 60 Tibetans found with photos of exiled Tibetan
spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, intensifying a campaign against possession of the banned images.
The arrested included 19 monks from a local monastery and 40 laypeople whose homes were
thoroughly searched by police.
(Comment: The arrests come in the wake of the recent high-level visits by Chinese President Xi
Jinping and CPCC Chairman Wang Yang to the Tibet Autonomous Region.)
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