China frees Tibetan environment rights protester, subject to tight restrictions

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(TibetanReview.net, Jul21’25) – China has released on Jul 8 after eight months a Tibetan environment rights protester in Sichuan province who should never have been jailed in the first place, subject to stringent conditions that severely curtails his freedom, according to Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) Jul 21.

Early release is usually granted for good behaviour but hardly to political prisoners like Tsongon Tsering of Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) Prefecture.

The 29-year-old resident of the prefecture’s Kakhog (Hongyuan) County was initially detained in Oct 2024 after he appeared in a five-minute video on his Kuaishou social media account, in which he s...

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