By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 6 Nov: Gonpo Kyi, the sister of jailed Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, has reportedly sustained internal injuries and multiple bone fractures following repeated assaults by Chinese police during protests demanding a fair retrial for her brother, according to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).

Despite the alleged violence, Gonpo Kyi staged another protest outside the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Higher People’s Court in Lhasa on 26 October, holding a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping and a petition demanding that her brother’s defence lawyers be granted full access to his case files and that a public retrial be convened.

Information shared with ICT by sources close to the family indicates that Gonpo Kyi has staged repeated protests outside the court over the past four years, including in June and August this year. Police have ...