On 2 March 2023, local police detained Yangtso, 23, from Gyatso Township, Namling (Ch: Nanmulin) County, Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) City, Tibet Autonomous Region. The police detained her after checking her cell phone and seeing that she had contacted and sent photos to people outside the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Yangtso worked at the Snow Mountain Restaurant(Tib: གངས་རིའི་ཟ་ཁང་།) in Shigatse (Ch: Xigaze) City at the time of her detention.

She is currently being detained at the local police station of Namling county