Shimla, Dec. 18 -- Raising concern over mass arrests and communications blackout following protest against gold mining in Kashi, Kham Zachukha, eastern Tibet, the Tibetans in Exile seek government intervention.

Deputy director and environmental researcher at the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI), Tempa Gyaltsen, during a press conference held on Tuesday in Dharamshala said that Chinese authorities in Kashi village have detained around 80 Tibetans following a protest against illegal gold-mining activities, with the whereabouts of seven individuals still unknown.

He said that the detentions were carried out on November 6 at approximately 6:50 pm after local Tibetans confronted the miners and alerted township authorities to gold extraction disc...