RFA’s Tibetan service has been chasing down details about the detention in Sichuan province of a Tibetan writer and television journalist. Washu Rangjung, 26, was taken away by police on Sept. 11 just before midnight by officials from the Kardze [in Chinese, Ganzi] Autonomous Tibetan Prefecture, which comprises Serthar [in Chinese, Seda] county.“His family members were not informed of reasons for his detention but they suspect some political reasons,” an exiled Tibetan from Serthar county in India said. A monk in Serthar county confirmed that account.
Washu Rangjung is a writer and a presenter on local television. A graduate of Dartsedo [Kangding] Normal College, Washu Rangjung later became a reporter, and he has published three books on the Himalayan region.
Reporters Without Borders said today it was deeply worried about him.
“The Chinese authorities must explain why this journalist and defender of Tibetan culture has been arrested,” it said. “The case highlights the climate of fear prevailing in the Tibetan regions, where many people have been arrested arbitrarily since the events in March.”
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