Chinese police have beaten to death a young Tibetan man in Labrang in Amdo region.The incident occurred on December 9, when Chonjor, a Tibetan in his twenties was apprehended by Chinese police while he was riding a motor bike en route to Labrang Tashikyil monastery to meet a monk relative.The police had apparently stopped Chonjor on the pretext of checking his license and was handed over to the People’s Armed Police who took him into custody.When Chonjor’s family members realised that he had gone missing, they went to the police station the next morning, only to be told that he was dead.

Sources in exile say that he had faced severe torture while in custody.

Chinese police in the region have been manning the streets more rigorously in recent weeks and apprehending Tibetans driving cars, riding motor bikes, and even walking on the road.

Many Tibetans were also briefly detained and interrogated for possible links with anti-China protests that engulfed the entire Tibetan plateau in 2008”.

A similar custody death of a Chinese villager in Wukan village in southern China on Sunday, December 11 has become a major flashpoint between local Chinese villagers and the police in the full glare of international media.