16. Mar 2009
Monks taken for ‘study' after peaceful protest
(ICT) The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) reports that more than a hundred monks who held a candlelit vigil on the first day of Tibetan New Year on 25 February have been taken from their monastery, Lutsang, in Mangra (Chin: Guinan) county, Tsolho (Chin: Hainan) TAP, in Qinghai province, for 'study' - a circumlocution for political education classes - at an unknown location. ICT said around 100 monks were taken from the monastery in early March while a number of the remaining monks have undergone interrogation, torture and beatings.