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Beijing orders Tibetan detentions after India pilgrimage
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- Parent Category: Focus Issues
- Category: Human Rights
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09 Apr 2012
- Last Updated on Monday, 17 December 2012 18:22
- Published on Monday, 09 April 2012 03:53
- Written by Edward Wong
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Exiled Tibetans attend a religious ceremony at the Chime Gatsal Ling monastery in Dharamsala, India. Photo: AP
According to family members and human rights groups, this is the first time that Chinese authorities have detained large numbers of Tibetan pilgrims returning from the January ceremony, held every year in northern India.
Many of the pilgrims are elderly and have been detained for more than two months in central Tibet, or what China calls the Tibet
