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This interview was conducted on 20 September and is the fifth in the series. The refugee is an eight-year-old refugee girl from Ngari in western Tibet, from where news rarely emerges compared to Tibetan areas in the east.

As of September 2023, all core curriculum textbooks in Tibetan schools in Ngaba Prefecture have been replaced with Chinese-language variants.

Notification circulated by Education Bureau in September bans Tibetan language classes from primary to high secondary schools

Tsultrim was sentenced to two years in prison for possessing photos of the Dalai Lama on his phone

In this fourth interview, a refugee from Golog, eastern Tibet, recounts the forced installation of the Chinese phone app National Anti-fraud Centre. The app was developed by the Ministry of Public Security and launched in March 2021 to detect spam calls and texts but has raised numerous concerns about user data and privacy.

Sister of imprisoned businessman Dorjee Tashi beaten by police authorities outside Lhasa court whilst asking for a retrial in his case