Six UN experts question China for severely persecuting Tibetan teenager who protested for freedom

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(TibetanReview.net, Sep18’25) – In another joint communication from the United Nations in Jul 2025, a group of six rights experts has asked China to account for the arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment, and imprisonment of a Tibetan teenager in 2015-16 for staging a peaceful human rights protest demonstration. The experts have made it clear that the case of Namkyi, from Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) prefecture, Sichuan Province, illustrates violations of international human rights law, including protections against torture, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearance.

Namkyi escaped to India in 2023 and testified at the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, earlier this year. The six UN Special Rapporte...

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