Tibetan Culture Website Shut Down in China

A prominent Tibetan cultural website in China has been shut down, despite a history of attempting to mollify censors.TibetCul, a contraction of Tibetan Cultural Net, fostered a community of 80,000 Tibetans.
Tibetan Culture Website Shut Down in China
REMOVED: The TibetCul website before it was unexpectedly shutdown on March 16. TibetCul was an independent website focused on Tibetan culture that studiously avoided wading into political issues. Courtesy of Tibetan Cultural Net
Matthew Robertson
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REMOVED: The TibetCul website before it was unexpectedly shutdown on March 16. TibetCul was an independent website focused on Tibetan culture that studiously avoided wading into political issues. (Courtesy of Tibetan Cultural Net)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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