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Detention after phone search in Chamdo and Drag-yab County known to last two to three months
Chinese police authorities in Drag-yab County (Ch: Zhag’yab County) and Chamdo have been monitoring families of exiled Tibetans with special attention for the past two years.
New surveillance tactics were recently introduced, which require Tibetans with exiled relatives and family members to install an application on their phones. Tibet Watch learned from the source that the Chinese authorities have made it compulsory for those Tibetans to download the phone application, which allows unprecedented access to phone data. Anyone found with photos and videos deemed “politically sensitive” by police authorities and contacting Tibetans living outside Tibet, were arbitrarily detained for two to three months. They have also been kept under surveillance upon release and subjected to restrictions on movement. Click here to read more.