Tashi Rabten is one of two Tibetan students arrested by the Chinese government from the Tibet Autonomous Region. As the editior of Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain), a banned literary magazine, he wrote on the suppression of the March 2008 protests in Lhasa and surrounding regions. Sydney PEN is calling for Tashi’s immediate release from Chinese custody.
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Each week we will feature an article, a cause, an event, or an organization that is as equally dedicated to celebrating freedom of expression and supporting persecuted poets and novelists worldwide. This article is an excerpt from Lucy Popescu’s Silenced Voices.
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