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A Chinese student activist has been detained for almost two months by authorities in Beijing on suspected separatism charges for allegedly supporting Tibetan rights, her friends have said.
Zhang Yadi, a 22-year-old studying in France, was visiting her parents in China for the summer when she went missing on 31 July and has been reportedly held incommunicado.
She is believed to be held at a detention centre in her hometown of Changsha in the southern province of Hunan and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted under charges of "inciting others to split the country and undermine national unity".
Her friends and activists say the charge is rarely used against members of the Han Chinese ethnic majority like Ms Zhang, but is now being used to target people who champion minority rig...
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