21. May 2010
Crackdown on Tibetan ringtones
(RFA) Students and teachers at a high school near Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell phones after local education officials designated them "unhealthy", according to Radio Free Asia (RFA). The school announced that owing to the "increasing complexity of separatism", a list of 27 popular Tibetan-language tracks had been banned, whether in audio or video disk format, or as digital media files on people's cell phones. "Staff and students must not have any of the above songs as their mobile phone ringtone", a statement posted on the school's website said, but the posting has since been removed. It said the school's Communist Party committee, the education and politics department and the youth league would be carrying out clean-up campaigns targeting the banned songs.