Three UN Special Rapporteurs Express Concerns Over the Arrest and Detention of Tibetan Environmentalist Tsongon Tsering

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Three UN Special Rapporteurs Express Concerns Over the Arrest and Detention of Tibetan Environmentalist Tsongon Tsering

Geneva, 29 March 2025: Three UN Special Rapporteurs—Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor; Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, Astrid Puentes Riañ; and Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan—released a joint communication to raise concerns over the summoning and questioning of Tibetan environmental activist Tsongon Tsering (alternatively spelled “Tsogon Tsering”), as well as his subsequent detention due to his activism against sand mining in Ngaba...

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