Tibetan TV reporter and entertainer detained in China

From AP:

Jamyang Kyi during a tour of the United States in 2006. Photo: RFA

Jamyang Kyi during a tour of the United States in 2006. Photo: RFA

A Tibetan television reporter and entertainer has been detained by Chinese security forces in the wake of last month’s anti-government protests across Tibetan areas of the country, her husband said Wednesday.

Jamyang Kyi has worked for state-run Qinghai TV in the western province of the same name for two decades. She also writes and records songs in the Tibetan language and performs abroad, sometimes alongside musicians associated with the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan government-in-exile, which Beijing accuses of orchestrating recent violence.

Her husband, Lamao Jia, told The Associated Press she was first detained on April 1 and has not been seen since April 7. He said he didn’t know who had taken his wife into custody.

Read also Leading Tibetan Writer, Performer, Producer Arrested from RFA, and Tibetan TV producer detained in China from Committee to Protect Journalists.

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