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‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support
‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support
Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama
Jessie Lau
Tue 30 Sep 2025 06.00 EDT
Chinese student known for pro-Tibet activism overseas is detained while visiting China
Chinese student known for pro-Tibet activism overseas is detained while visiting China
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese student who became a vocal advocate for Tibet while living in Europe has been detained by Chinese authorities, according to two of her close friends, as Beijing is becoming more aggressive in its efforts to silence dissenting voices not only at home but also abroad.
DIDI TANG
Updated 8:59 AM GMT-7, September 26, 2025
“I Am a Brave Person”—Zhang Yadi: From Political Depression to the Path of Freedom and Truth “我是勇敢的人”——张雅笛：从政治抑郁走向为自由和真相发声的觉醒之路
“I Am a Brave Person”—Zhang Yadi: From Political Depression to the Path of Freedom and Truth “我是勇敢的人”——张雅笛：从政治抑郁走向为自由和真相发声的觉醒之路
She walked through fear, speaking into the silence. Every time she opened a blank page, each word she wrote was like lighting a lamp in the night. On this narrow and difficult path, Zhang Yadi found the courage to pursue freedom.
她在恐惧中行走，在寂静中发声。每一次举起白纸、每一段写下的文字，都像是在夜里点亮一盏灯。在这条窄小艰难的道路上，张雅笛为自己找到了追寻自由的勇气。
Sep 23, 2025
བོད་མིར་དགའ་ཞེན་ཆེ་བའི་རྒྱ་རིགས་བུད་མེད་ཅིག་འཛིན་བཟུང་བྱས་ཏེ་གོ་ཐོས་མེད་པར་གྱུར།
བོད་མིར་དགའ་ཞེན་ཆེ་བའི་རྒྱ་རིགས་བུད་མེད་ཅིག་འཛིན་བཟུང་བྱས་ཏེ་གོ་ཐོས་མེད་པར་གྱུར།
Young Chinese Woman with Avowed Affection for Tibetans Arrested and Disappeared
Young Chinese Woman with Avowed Affection for Tibetans Arrested and Disappeared
བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་སྐད་ཡིག་སོགས་ལ་དོ་དབྱིངས་ཆེ་བའི་རྒྱ་རིགས་བུད་མེད་བོད་མིང་ལ་དབང་མཚོ་དང་རྒྱ་མིང་ལ་ཀྲང་ཡ་ཌི་ལགས་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་འཛིན་བཟུང་བཙན་འཁྲིད་བྱས་ཏེ་ཟླ་བ་གཉིས་ཙམ་འགྲོ་བཞིན་ཡོད་ཀྱང་གོ་ཐོས་གང་ཡང་མེད་པར་གྱུར་འདུག
Reported By Palden, Edited By Pema Tso, Translated By TenGyal
September 25, 2025
London master’s student who advocated for Tibetans detained during China visit, friend says
London master’s student who advocated for Tibetans detained during China visit, friend says
A Chinese student activist has been detained for almost two months by authorities in Beijing, charged with suspected separatism for allegedly supporting Tibetan rights, her friends have said.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
Wednesday 24 September 2025 14:27 BST
China detains student for Tibet activism, rights group says
China detains student for Tibet activism, rights group says
BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A Chinese student activist who supported Tibetan rights has been detained for almost two months on suspicion of "inciting separatism" while temporarily visiting China from France, her friends and a human rights group say.
Laurie Chen
September 23, 2025 2:32 AM PDT
Chinese int’l student advocating Tibet dialogue goes missing during trip home
Chinese int’l student advocating Tibet dialogue goes missing during trip home
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – In what is seen as the latest case of transnational repression, a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST) that emerged after the “white paper protests” in China at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022.
September 19, 2025
声援藏人留法学生张雅笛 回国遭涉“煽动分裂国家罪”拘留
声援藏人留法学生张雅笛 回国遭涉“煽动分裂国家罪”拘留
一名22岁的中国留法学生张雅笛（Tara），7月5日返回长沙探亲并至云南朝山，7月30日在云南香格里拉与外界失联。根据“华语青年挺藏会”20日发布的消息，她已被湖南省长沙市国家安全局以涉嫌“煽动分裂国家罪”刑事拘留，目前关押在长沙市国家安全局看守所。
2025.09.19 05:21 EDT
海外聲援西藏 中國留法女學生返國被拘留
海外聲援西藏 中國留法女學生返國被拘留
（中央社台北20日電）中國留法女學生張雅笛7月返國探親，其後失聯多日。「華語青年挺藏會」今天通報，張雅笛7月31日被依涉嫌「煽動分裂國家罪」刑事拘留，目前關押在湖南長沙市國家安全局看守所。張雅笛在巴黎留學期間，曾聲援西藏與白紙運動。
2025/9/20 18:05（9/22 18:08 更新）
རྒྱ་རིགས་མང་གཙོ་དོན་གཉེར་བ་ཞིག་འཛིན་བཟུང་གིས་གར་སོང་ཆ་མེད་དུ་གྱུར་འདུག
རྒྱ་རིགས་མང་གཙོ་དོན་གཉེར་བ་ཞིག་འཛིན་བཟུང་གིས་གར་སོང་ཆ་མེད་དུ་གྱུར་འདུག
援藏人士张雅笛回国后失踪，疑似遭中共以“危害国家安全”为由拘捕
援藏人士张雅笛回国后失踪，疑似遭中共以“危害国家安全”为由拘捕
རྒྱ་གཞུང་ཉེན་རྟོག་པས་ France ཧྥ་རན་སི་ནང་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་བཞིན་པའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྤྱི་དམངས་ཐོབ་ཐང་རྩོད་ལེན་པ་དང་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བ་ Zhang Yadi ཀྲང་ཡ་དི་ལགས་ནས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་སྲིད་དབང་མགོ་རྟིང་སློག་ཐབས་བྱས་པའི་ཉེས་མིང་འོག་རྒྱ་ནག་ Yunan ཡུ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན་ནས་འཛིན་བཟུང་བཙན་ཁྲིད་བྱས་ཏེ་ད་ཆ་ཉིན་གྲངས་ ༥༠ ལྷག་ཕྱིན་ཡང་ཁོང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གནས་ཚུལ་གང་ཡང་ཤེས་རྟོགས་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་མེད་པ་རེད་འདུག
By vot.org 19/09/2025
China detains student activist before she can move to London
China detains student activist before she can move to London
Zhang Yadi, who has expressed support for Tibet and criticised the treatment of minorities, had been due to start a master’s degree in the UK
Richard Spencer, China Correspondent
Wednesday September 24 2025, 7.00pm BST, The Times
旅法华语挺藏女青年回国探亲期间遭国安局刑事拘留
旅法华语挺藏女青年回国探亲期间遭国安局刑事拘留
根据海外跨国团体“华语青年挺藏会”19日发布的最新消息，已确认该组织成员张雅笛返回中国探亲期间，于7月31日被湖南省长沙市国家安全局以涉嫌“煽动分裂国家罪”刑事拘留。目前关押在长沙市国家安全局看守所。张雅迪的朋友和通道在各社交媒体平台上开设“张雅迪关注组”账号，希望动员更多的人关注的她的下落，并广为转发。
19/09/2025 - 12:38
22 year old student advocate for Tibet detained in China
22 year old student advocate for Tibet detained in China
Zhang Yadi (online alias Tara @Tara.Freesoul), has been incommunicado for 50 days inside China, and is feared to have been detained by state security authorities.
19/09/2025
China: Immediately and Unconditionally Release Student Activist Zhang Yadi
China: Immediately and Unconditionally Release Student Activist Zhang Yadi
Chinese student Zhang Yadi arrested for promoting awareness of Tibet, held without access to a lawyer
October 21, 2025
‘Forced to pay a price for her activism’: SOAS student detained in China for Tibet support
‘Forced to pay a price for her activism’: SOAS student detained in China for Tibet support
Tara Zhang Yadi is believed to be imprisoned by the Chinese government after disappearing in July
Oct, 2025, Yacine Sedour
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“中國政治犯關注” (China Political Prisoner Concern)
“中國政治犯關注” (China Political Prisoner Concern)
2003年出生，湖南省長沙市人，佛教徒，在法留學生，X平臺用戶名Tara @TaraFreesoul，白紙運動聲援者，“華語青年挺藏會”編輯，海外青年活動者，中國在押政治犯。
張雅笛(女)（CPPC編號：01459）
2025年9月24日 星期三
On July 30, 2025, Zhang Yadi disappeared when she was in Shangri-la (Gyalthang) city, Diqing (Dechen) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province. Sources indicated that state security personnel had returned her to her hometown in Changsha municipality, Hunan province, and detained her on suspicion of “inciting separatism.”
CECC Record Number: 2025-00123
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