(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’21) – The handsets are given free and you don’t need to pay for the services; but you are banned from owning any other mobile phone and will remain monitored at all times. Chinese authorities in Tibet launched this programme around 2014 in order to keep released political prisoners under their constant radar, said the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Nov 11, citing a former political prisoner in Tibet. The personal mobile phones of families are also said to be required to be registered for the purpose of being implanted with monitoring apps. The “cell phones issued by the government…