ཉེ་ལམ་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༣༡ ཉིན་རྒྱ་ནག་པེ་ཅིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཁྲིམས་འཛིན་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ཁྲིམས་རྩོད་པ་ལིན་ཁི་ལེ་ཡི་ཁྲིམས་རྩོད་ལག་འཁྱེར་ཕྱིར་བསྡུ་བྱས་འདུག་པ་ནི་ཧ་ཅང་ནོར་འཁྲུལ་ཅན་གྱི་ཐག་གཅོད་ཅིག་ཡིན་པ་མ་ཟད་ཞི་ཅིན་ཕིང་ཐོག་མར་སྲིད་འཛིན་ཆགས་པ་ནས་བཟུང་“ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་དབང་བསྒྱུར་”ཡོང་ཐབས་བྱ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཟེར་བ་ཚིག་སྐམ་པོ་ཙམ་ལས་ལག་ལེན་ཐོག་ལྡོག་ཕྱོགས་སུ་འགྲོ་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་མངོན་གསལ་དོད་པོ་ཆགས་ཡོད།
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) expresses grave concerns over the uncertainty surrounding the appeal case of imprisoned Tibetan community activist A-nya Sengdra and his associates, and calls on the Chinese authorities to release them immediately without conditions.
Mr Sengdra, a popular community leader was sentenced to seven years and his associates to varying prison terms on the trumped-up charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “gathering a crowd to disturb public order” last December in Gade (Ch: Gande) County, Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) condemns the latest attempt by Chinese authorities to block imprisoned Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk’s appeal against his five-year prison term by giving the excuse of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Tashi Wangchuk had been sentenced to five years in prison on the trumped-up charge of “inciting separatism” in May 2018 by the Yushu Intermediate People’s Court in Qinghai Province following which he decided to appeal the sentence through his lawyers Lin Qilei and Liang Xiaojun.
In arbitrary detention for over three years for advocating Tibetan language education, Tashi Wangchuk continues to maintain his innocence and seeks to appeal against his five-year conviction on trumped up charges of ‘inciting separatism’.
According to an update published by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk’s lawyer Lin Qilei was not allowed to meet with his client on 15 January during a visit to Dongchuang Prison in Xining, Qinghai Province. Lin had sought the meeting to discuss details of Tashi Wangchuk’s appeal notice. After being made to wait for an hour, prison authorities told Lin that since the case was ‘sensitive’, approval was required from the provincial Political and Legal Committee.