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Tibetan director detained, hospitalised in China -film guild

BEIJING, Jun 29 (Reuters) An award-winning Tibetan film director has been detained and suffered serious injury while in police custody, a Chinese film directors' guild said today, sparking widespread condemnation in the Chinese film industry.
Pema Tseden, a renowned Tibetan filmmaker best known for the films "Tharlo" and "Old Dog", was detained at an airport in western China on Saturday, the Film Directors' Guild of China said in a statement posted to its official microblog account. It was not immediately clear why.
He was badly hurt in the course of his detention, the statement added, and was then taken to hospital in the western Chinese city of Xining on Monday. Police in Xining did not respond to repeated calls for comment and Pema Tseden could not be reached.
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