Global press watchdog condemns China’s Tibet-blackout on Aug 26 flash flood crisis

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(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’26) – One of the world’s top press freedom organisations has on Sep 2 strongly condemned China for imposing sweeping restrictions on media professionals from accessing vital information on the Tibetan side of the border following the devastating glacier-avalanche triggered Tibet-Nepal flash floods of Aug 26 morning.

Expressing grave concern, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that no independent Tibetan media outlet or international news organisation had been granted access to the disaster-stricken Kyirong area of Tibet.

This “reflects a long-standing practice of the Chinese regime, which exercises some of the strictest control in the world over media pro...

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