Tibetan writers arrested in Lanzhou

China has arrested two Tibetan students of Northwest National Minorities’ University in Lanzhou yesterday.Tashi Rabten and Druklo were arrested after around 16 officials from the local Public Security Bureau arrived in the university hostel and ransacked students’ rooms. The officials confiscated cellular phones, laptop computers and books from the students. Tashi was the editor of the banned literary magazine the Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain) on the 2008 protests in Tibet, and also edited a collection of work called “Written in Blood”. His “fearless” writings had led to his arrest last year in July. His fellow schoolmates said last year that he had won “great respect and popularity among students, intellectuals and ordinary readers in Tibet as an outstanding and brave young thinker.”