Tibetan Singer Tashi Dondrup Detained

Tibetan singer Tashi Dondrup was detained late last week, accused by Chinese authorities of "composing subversive songs."

Dondrup's latest album Torture without Trace, had been banned for its content "expressing nostalgia for the exiled Dalai Lama" and remembering the "anti-Chinese riot" in Lhasa in March 2008. According to the Times (UK), Tashi Dondrup was detained "while in hiding in the western city of Xining, capital of Qinghai province, where he had taken refuge after the authorities banned his music."