(TibetanReview.net, Oct09’25) – Four UN rights experts and expert groups have on Aug 8 asked China and Vietnam in separate joint communications to account for the questionable manner in which a locally prominent religious leader from Tibet was detained, disappeared, and claimed to have died in Vietnam in March this year, causing outcries among his followers and others across the world. They have released their communications following the expiry of the 60-day period for the two governments to respond to these very serious allegations.
The experts – the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arb...





