Tag: Political Prisoner
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Tibet’s Stolen Child
Edited by Boyana Nikolova and Joya Liu Cover Photo by Rodz Oporto The World’s Youngest Political Prisoner On May 17, 1995, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forcefully kidnapped six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was earlier crowned as the Panchen Lama—the second-highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. Tibet, often referred to as the…