Human Rights Update 1997

In June, 1997, 20 monks of Gongkar Choede Monastery participated in a heated debate about the re-education session that was being held in their monastery. One of the monks, Jampel Tender exhibited his disgust by pasting posters speaking against the presence of the workteam. This resulted in him receiving severe beatings and ill treatment. Jampel Tendar is a 20-year-old monk…

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Collective trial followed by sentencing is very common in Chinese courts in Tibet. This allows the court authorities to decide cases at their own free will. Many political prisoners have had their sentence decided as such. This weakens the scope for any accused to prove themselves not guilty. The following issue represents such a court scene. The Intermediate Peoples’ Court…

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Chakdor Tsering, editor of the Tibet journal “Daser” has reportedly been detained in June 1997 for political reasons. However, nothing is known of his whereabouts till now. Chakdor Tsering, 30 years old, is from Amdo Lharang. He acquired his education in the Sangchu District Primary School in the Kan-Lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In 1989, he joined the Tibetan Teacher’s Training…

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In July this year seven monks from Serwa monastery in Chamdo region were arrested by the Communist China’s Public Security Bureau. This is the second known case of arrest of Serwa monks. Earlier in March 1994 five monks from the same monastery were arrested and are presently serving prison sentences of 12 to 15 years in Powo Tramo Labour Camp.…

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The latest Policy of Chinese repression comes in the most subtle manner of taxation. The Tibetans, irrespective of their economic position are all subjected to various form of taxation some of which are totally ludicrous. Though the taxation policy was implemented in Tibet since the Chinese occupation of Tibet, but in recent times harsher form of taxing imposed causes difficulties…

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A report released by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) describes widespread and systematic violations by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) of Tibetan children’s rights to education. “The Next Generation: The State of Education in Tibet Today”, a 100 page report based on interviews conducted in spring 1997 with 50 Tibetan children who have fled Tibet…

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Sixty-three-year-old Gonpo from Tsongyon region under Bayan county was arrested on December 25, 1996, by the Public Security Bureau and his detention was officially announced in January 1997. However, the term of his sentence and present whereabouts are unknown. Gonpo was reportedly arrested on charges of having contacts with the Tibetan Government-in-Exile based in Dharamsala, India. Gonpo, a graduate of…

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In Drayab Magon Monastery, monks have protested without success against recent decisions by Chinese officials to reduce by hundreds the number of monks allowed. Five monks who refused to accept “Re-education” principles requiring renouncement of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence have been arrested, four of whom are now serving six-year sentences. Drayab Magon monastery in Drayab County, Chamdo region,…

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Tsewang, a 63 year old man from Shol Lhasa, has failed in his appeal to the “TAR” People’s High Court after being sentenced by the Lhasa City’s Intermediate People’s Court to five years imprisonment for “stealing state secrets and communicating with western splittist forces” in its verdict issued on 26 March, 1996. The verdict of the Intermediate Court stated “at…

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