Prominent Tibetan blogger Woeser has been detained by the Chinese police, according to the Times (via Status of Chinese People).

Woeser, a prominent poet who lives in Beijing, had returned to Llasa, the Tibetan capital, and was visiting her mother when police presented her with a warrant. The warrant stipulated she had been photographing allegedly sensitive military installations.

After interrogating her for eight hours, she was returned to her mother’s home, where she had been staying with her husband. They left soon after that to return to Beijing. They had originally planned on a month-long visit.

Woeser’s poetry was originally approved by the Chinese government. In 2003, her prose book “Notes on Tibet” was banned and she has been unable to get officially published in China or Tibet since. With a Chinese father and a Tibetan mother, she writes mostly in Chinese. After the March riots Chinese hackers vandalized her blog.

She is not the first Tibetan blogger to be harassed by the Chinese police. Jamyang Kyi was arrested in April. There has been no news on her since then. Update: According to Clothilde at RSF, she was released about a month after being arrested.