The Teacher and Political Detainee has returned home following an International Campaign for her release
According to information supplied by Tibet Watch, Free Tibet’s research partner, Rinchen Kyi was secretly returned home by police at 8pm local time on Sunday 24 April.
Rinchen Kyi is from Golog Prefecture in eastern Tibet, which under the Chinese occupation is governed as part of Qinghai Province. She was detained at her home on 1 August 2021 and charged with “inciting separatism”, a state security crime. There is no suggestion of her having committed any crime.
The arrest followed the closure of Sengdruk Taktse Middle School, the school where Rinchen Kyi taught. The school was forcefully shut down without any official clarification on 8 July. The closure of the school left Rinchen Kyi deeply upset and unable to eat.
The motivation for Sengdruk Taktse Middle School being closed appeared to be because the school’s primary language of instruction was Tibetan and it taught lessons about Tibet’s culture. Tibetan experts have noted that the Chinese government has imposed increasingly tight restrictions on the Tibetan language and Tibetan culture as part of a policy of eradicating them.
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