The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reports that the Chinese government has begun to hand down public sentences for Tibetans “tried” in connection to protests in Lhasa.
China’s state media today morning announced that 17 Tibetans have been sentenced between three years to life imprisonment in connection with the Lhasa revolt in March 2008. […]
This week, a Beijing court sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3.5 years in prison for subversion. He was arrested in part for co-authoring, with Teng Biao, this open letter on human rights.
As we wrote before, the terror has started.
Chinese forces have begun to systematically terrorize the Tibetan population. From parading shackled prisoners, to house-to-house searches, the aim is as much to terrorize the people as it is to find protesters and dissidents.
From the Times (UK):
The Chinese Army drove through the streets of Lhasa today parading dozens […]
From the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy:
March 16 - Hundreds of Tibetans are arbitrarily arrested in the ongoing house-by-house raid by Chinese security forces in Lhasa beginning from 15 March 2008. All former political prisoners have already been rounded off and thrown into prisons by the security forces according to confirmed information received […]
More information trickles out of Tibet about the largest protests in about twenty years. Radio Free Asia reports on a second day of protests, which were suppressed with tear gas and gun shots:
Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, […]
As Tibetans around the world commemorate the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising, Radio Free Asia reports on brave protests in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa:
Chinese authorities in Tibet today detained dozens of Tibetan monks staging a rare protest march into the regional capital, Lhasa, on a key anniversary.
An authoritative source who declined to be […]
Information on the crackdown in Lhasa continues to trickle out. After clashes following Tibetans’ celebration of the Congressional Gold Medal being awarded to the Dalai Lama, Chinese security forces are “mopping up.”
Radio Free Asia reports:
Chinese authorities in Tibet have detained three monks and are questioning more than a dozen others after the monks tried […]
In a normal country, kids who do graffiti get in minor trouble. In Chinese-occupied Tibet, it can mean incommunicado detention and being beaten bloody.
According to a new report by Human Rights Watch, seven Tibetan high school students are being “detained on suspicion of writing pro-Tibetan independence slogans on buildings… One of the detainees, aged […]
This is an exciting time for Tibet. As the Beijing Olympics approach, it’s good to assess now and then where the Tibet movement is. More and more, the Tibet movement has been winning important victories — even as repression worsens inside Tibet.
Internationally, HH the Dalai Lama is receiving more honors than at any time […]
The Chinese government, showing again how the Olympics are bringing more human rights abuses to China, has just arrested a Chinese activist for gathering over 10,000 signatures on a petition.
Land rights activist Yang Chunlin had gathered this impressive number of signatures on a petition entitled “We want human rights, not the Olympics,” according to the AP.
Watchdog […]
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