![]() “No village must be omitted from a township, no household must be omitted from a village, and no person must be omitted from a household,” it said. In a January report, police described efforts in Chonggye county to conduct information registration and DNA collection. ![]() The report described the campaign as “intrusive policing”, taking samples from all residents of some villages, including those as young as five, or of all male residents. It also detected some collection drives on Tibetan regions outside the TAR. The report also cited two government tenders for the construction of local DNA databases in 2019.Ĭiting publicly available police and state media publications, Human Rights Watch identified drives in 14 distinct localities across every prefecture-level region in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), including one whole prefecture, two counties, two towns, two townships and seven villages. The DNA collection drives described in Monday’s report began in 2019 under a policing campaign called the “three greats” (inspection, investigation and mediation), designed to strengthen China’s intensive grassroots-level policing system.
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