BEIJING: Beijing effectively banned Tibetans and other ethnic minorities from obtaining passports, Human Rights Watch said on Monday, amid a surge in Chinese tourists travelling abroad.

Chinese authorities have created a two-tier system, the report said, one for areas populated by the country’s ethnic Han majority and another, more cumbersome system for areas inhabited by the country’s Tibetan and Muslim minorities.

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