By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 5 Nov: Dr Gyal Lo, a prominent Tibetan scholar and one of the leading eyewitnesses documenting China’s residential boarding school system in occupied Tibet, has been served with legal documents at his Toronto home in connection with a lawsuit filed by his former employer, Yunnan Normal University, seeking approximately CAD 203,000 (RMB 965,134.52), according to the Tibet Action Institute, where he works as a Tibet specialist.

The legal documents were served on his wife on 23 September while Dr Gyal Lo was in Geneva advocating for Tibetan children’s rights ahead of China’s review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The documents, issued by the International Legal Cooperation Centre of China’s Ministry of Justice, included a summons requiring him to appear at a hearing in China on 15 September. The institute said this was the first time Dr Gyal Lo became aware ...