Severity 4 — Severe⚖️ rights14 March 2008

Tibetan Unrest — Crackdown Ahead of the Olympics

Protests and riots across Tibetan areas in March 2008 were met with a heavy security crackdown, mass arrests, and a prolonged closure of the region to foreign journalists — timed a few months before Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics.

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Hu Jintao — Chinese Communist Party

In power 2002–2012

Source

CFR — China's Repression of Uyghurs (comparative context)

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