Dhararamsala, August 25 – A Tibetan youth named Pasang Norbu was detained by Chinese authorities in Lhasa on August 12 for viewing “restricted political information online”, Radio Free Asia reported citing sources.
Pasang had allegedly viewed articles on Tibetan independence, as well as photographs of Tibetan protests against Chinese rule last year.
Pasang, 19, was nabbed from a Zhijian Wang cyber café on the Tsangral Road in Lhasa around noon on August 12, a source told RFA. He is a resident of the Tren Kon subdivision of Lhasa city.