Human Rights Updates

Human Rights Updates

Letter from Tibet: Increase in unchecked violence

A letter dated 12 December 1996 describing recent brutal events in Tibet reached TCHRD from Tibet in January 1997. All events described in the...

Human Rights Updates February 15, 1997

Human Rights Report

The U.S. State Department's Human Rights Report for 1996, released on 30 January 1997, reports that during 1996 Chinese government authorities continued to commit...

Human Rights Updates February 15, 1997

Freedom of expression restricted

According to a radio broadcast from VOA on 27 January 1997, the long-anticipated regulations on all publications has been formally declared by the Chinese...

Human Rights Updates February 15, 1997

Profile: Chamdo monks imprisoned up to 15 years

Five Serwa monks, all from Chamdo Prefecture, are presently serving sentences of 12 to 15 years for pasting posters and shouting slogans calling for...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

Rinzin Wangyal sentenced to 16 years

According to unconfirmed reports from Tibet, Rinzin Wangyal was sentenced on December 13, 1996, to 16 years imprisonment. Rinzin (alias Rinwang), a 49-year-old worker at...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

Cultural sites under threat

The above informer expressed great concern over the possible destruction of two revered spiritual sites in Tibet. The first relates to the notion propagated by...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

An appeal from Tibet

The following is an excerpt of an appeal letter received from Lhasa, Tibet. The letter, dated December 1996, describes the new problems of unemployment...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

Prison terms for monks

A former political prisoner of 13 years, (name withheld for security reasons) recently fled Tibet, arriving in India in late 1996. He reported the arrest...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

Female prisoners suffer inhuman torture

The following is the testimony of Rinzin Choenyi, a 26-year-old nun of Shugseb Nunnery, who spent six years in Drapchi Prison. She, and other...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

Hunger strike in Drapchi Prison

According to new arrivals from Tibet, on 19 April 1996 female political prisoners in Drapchi Prison went on a hunger strike as a protest...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

Cases of torture in Drapchi prison

Phuntsok Yangkyi, a 20-year-old nun of Michungri Nunnery, died on 4 June 1994. Choenyi reports that, while in hospital, Phuntsok Yangkyi was injected twice...

Human Rights Updates January 31, 1997

chinese colonisation

On 1 July 1997 Hong Kong’s democratically elected Legislative Council will be replaced by a Beijing backed provisional body. Plans to amend laws so as...

Human Rights Updates January 30, 1997

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