CCP Arrests More Than 1,000 Tibetans After Protests Against Dam Construction Project

The U.S. State Department says it’s ‘deeply concerned’ over the reports of mass arrests.

Tibetans protest next to the U.N headquarters in New York City on Sept. 20, 2023. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times

The U.S. State Department has expressed concerns about the recent mass arrests of Tibetans in China in a sweeping clampdown by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in response to the ethnic group’s peaceful protests against the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

More than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks, were arrested on Feb. 23, according to the International Tibet Network rights group. The arrests took place at Derge, a town in Dege County in Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province.