Tibetan county chief removed for dithering on new religious crackdown in a Qinghai prefecture

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(TibetanReview.net, Aug02’26) – The top Tibetan leader of a county in Tsolho (Chinese: Hainan) Prefecture of Qinghai province, formerly part of Tibet’s Amdo (or Domey) Province, has been removed from his post after he dithered on carrying out at once further religious restrictions and demolitions ordered by the prefecture’s new Chinese party chief, reported the Tibetan-language tibettimes.net Aug 2, citing a local source.

The report said that following his appointment as the Tsolho prefecture’s Party Secretary in Apr 2026, Xiong Yuan Lai ordered new, more rigorous religious restrictions and demolitions apparently ahead of the coming into force of China’s new Ethic Unity and Progre...

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