China detains student for Tibet activism, rights group says


Tibetan activist Zhang Yadi. - Image credit: HRW website.

BEIJING: 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.

Zhang Yadi, 22, also known as Tara, went missing in the southwestern province of Yunnan on July 31, and since then she has not been reachable by friends or family, her friends and New York-based Human Rights Watch said.

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