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.

Update: According to Clothilde at RSF, she was released about a month after being arrested.

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According to Radio Free Europe, Jamyang Kyi, Tibetan writer, performer and blogger, has been arrested by the Chinese.

Plainclothes state security officers escorted Jamyang Kyi, who has travelled widely and performed and lectured in the United States, from her office at state-owned Qinghai TV on April 1, an authoritative source told RFA’s Tibetan service. “She never returned,” a source in Siling [in Chinese, Xining] said. “People were speculating that she was detained in a guesthouse for interrogation.”

Another authoritative source in Beijing said she had been formally arrested by the Xining Public Security Bureau, although the charges against her were unknown. In China, a formal arrest almost always precedes a conviction. “Security people went to Jamyang Kyi’s house to search her computer, her mailing list, and contact numbers and took all these away,” another source in Xining said.

As Homer once asked Marge, “Don’t you ever get tired of being wrong?”