Social Media Handles Of Exiled Tibetan Government Under Threat

Lhasa (Tibet): Tibetan government official in exile and human rights activists have their social media handles under threat of being silenced, in a bid mum voices against the Chinese occupation of Tibet, a media report said.

In January this year, the official twitter handle of Tenzin Lekshay, the spokesperson and additional secretary, Department of Information and International Relations for the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) disappeared in unclear circumstances and remains suspended, Tibet Rights Collective said.

“Despite repeatedly appealing to @TwitterSupport for months, @Twitter is silent and could not resolve the suspension of my twitter account @tlekshay which was running for more than 10 years.

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