Tibet: Tibetan Monasteries Placed Under Direct Rule

Tibet: Tibetan Monasteries Placed Under Direct Rule   The Chinese government has ended a key policy of allowing Tibetan monasteries to be run by monks who comply with government regulations and have instead introduced a system that will place almost every monastery in Tibet under the direct rule of government officials who will be permanently stationed in each religious institution, Human Rights Watch said today.   On January 4, 2012, the Party Secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous...

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