16 April 2008
Jamyang Kyi arrested
(RFA) Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a prominent Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer. State security officers escorted Jamyang Kyi from her office at the state-owned Qinghai TV in Xining on 01 April, a source told Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Tibetan service. Another source in Beijing said she had been arrested by the Xining Public Security Bureau, although the charges against her were unknown. "Security people went to Jamyang Kyi's house to search her computer, her mailing list, and contact numbers and took all these away", another source in Xining said. Jamyang Kyi has worked as a producer in the Tibetan-language section of state-run Qinghai TV for two decades. She is well known among Tibetans as an activist on women’s issues, and she went on a lecture tour through the United States in 2006. Her blog is popular among young Tibetans, although she stopped updating it several months before anti-Chinese protests erupted in Lhasa in mid-March.