On 20 December 2021, Chinese authorities and security personnel in Matoe (Ch: Maduo) County, Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture detained Loten, a college graduate student after he spoke in an online messaging group on WeChat expressing disagreement with the policy of sinicization of the education system in Golog. He has since been kept in a detention center in Xiling (ཟི་ལིང་།) City. Loten had stated that implementing Chinese medium education and textbooks in Tibetan schools aims to "cut off the link between the mother tongue (the Tibetan language) and Tibetan kids from a young age". He was forcefully taken to Xiling City, capital of Qinghai Province. Authorities have informed his family via a phone call that he is undergoing re-education training in Xiling but have not given the exact location of the detention center or details of the re-education training. His family has not even been allowed to visit him.

Loten, aged 23, hails from Kyarang Township (སྐྱ་རིང་གྲོང་སྡེ།) in Golog Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province and has a keen interest in the preservation of the Tibetan language.