Sichuan Tibetan villagers face severe repression for reporting illegal gold mining; 80 held, 7 missing

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(TibetanReview.net, Dec17’25) – For exposing and protesting against illegal mining for gold going on in their local area, China has detained at least 80 Tibetans early last month from a village in the historically Tibetan area of Sichuan province while doing nothing to act against the invasive prospectors, who they were apparently in cahoot with, according to the Central Tibetan Administration on its Tibet.net website Dec 16, citing its think tank Tibet Policy Institute (TPI). While most have eventually been apparently released after severe ill-treatment with all manners of serious injuries, seven remain missing.

Residents of Kashi village in Sershul (aka Dzachukha, Chinese: Sêrxü or Shiqu)...

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