Zhang Yi, a former student leader at Tiananmen Square who was later imprisoned and tortured, is being held at the Lhasa Detention Centre.

The developments are part of a broader context of indoctrination of children in schools and intensified militarisation as part of China’s ‘Sinicisation’ policy.

Chinese police of Labrang Township in Sangchu County took into custody Jamyang Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk from Labrang Tashikhyil Monastery.

Lama Chime Tulku Rinpoche, was one of the first Tibetan lamas to settle in Britain.