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Wake bij Chinese ambassade ivm executie
FREE TIBET! - 28.01.2003 15:46
Ondanks internationaal protest heeft China zondag j.l. de executie van een Tibetaan doorgezet. Ook voor het leven van een andere Tibetaan wordt gevreesd. De Tibet Support Groep houdt morgen (woensdag 29 jan.) een wake bij de Chinese ambassade in Den Haag.
Wake op 29 januari bij Chinese ambassade voor geëxecuteerde Tibetaan
Gister werd bekend dat de Tibetaan Lobsang Dhondup op zondag 26 januari door de Chinese overheid is geëxecuteerd. Lobsang was één van de twee Tibetanen die op 2 december vorig jaar ter dood werd veroordeeld vanwege vermeende betrokkenheid bij bomaanslagen in Chengdu, april 2002. China voltrok het vonnis ondanks grote internationale druk van verschillende nationale regeringen, de EU - die een resolutie aannam waarin de Chinese regering werd opgeroepen om de doodstraf om te zetten, de rechtzaak te herzien en internationaal erkende legale procedures te garanderen - en vele Tibet supporters over de hele wereld. Over het lot van de andere Tibetaan, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, is inmiddels bekend dat zijn hoger beroep gisteren werd afgewezen. Dit houdt in dat zijn doodstraf mogelijk binnen twee jaar wordt voltrokken, danwel wordt omgezet in levenslang.
De Tibet Support Groep organiseert woensdagavond 29 januari om 19.00 uur een wake bij de Chinese Ambassade in Den Haag om stil te staan bij deze schokkende berichtgeving. Ze gedenken het overlijden van Lobsang Dhondup en vragen aandacht voor herziening van het vonnis van Tenzin Delek Rinpoche. De organisatie roept zoveel mogelijk mensen op om hierbij aanwezig te zijn op de Adriaan Goekooplaan 7 te Den Haag (tram 17 vanaf Den Haag CS en tram 8 vanaf Den Haag HS).
Ps Vanuit Amsterdam zullen Tibet supporters om 17.29 uur de trein naar Den Haag HS nemen vanaf spoor 13A
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China executes Tibetan for pro-independence bombings (AP)
By MARTIN FACKLER, Associated Press Writer
January 26, 2003 11:25PM (EST)
SHANGHAI, China - Police in western China have executed a Tibetan for a
string of bomb attacks in support of Tibetan independence, despite an
international outcry over the fairness of his trial.
Lobsang Dhondup, 28, was executed Sunday afternoon in Ganzi, a city near
the Tibetan border in Sichuan province, immediately after a court upheld
his original death sentence, an official at Ganzi Intermediate People's
Court said Monday. She refused to give her name.
The Sichuan Provincial High People's Court also rejected an appeal by
Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, a 52-year-old senior Buddhist monk, and affirmed
his suspended death sentence, the official said. A suspended sentence is
usually commuted to life in prison.
The two men were convicted in December of seeking independence for Tibet
and involvement in a series of bombings that killed one person.
While only Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche filed an appeal, the court affirmed the
sentences of both men on Sunday, the official Xinhua News Agency said
Sunday.
The case has raised protests among Tibetan activists and the U.S.
government.
The top U.S. human rights official raised the men's cases during talks
last month in Beijing. Assistant Secretary of State Lorne Craner
expressed "deep concern" about the severity of the sentences and the
possible lack of a fair trial.
China has angrily rejected such appeals as interference in its internal
affairs.
Militants opposed to Chinese control of Tibet have carried out at least
eight bomb attacks in the Himalayan region since the mid-1990s.
Communist troops marched into the region in 1950, and Beijing says it
has been part of China for centuries.
The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in 1959 during a failed uprising
against communist rule, has urged Tibetans to avoid violence, but some
want more direct action.
Activists describe Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche as a community leader in
Sichuan, which abuts Tibet and has a large ethnic Tibetan population.
The court official in Ganzi refused to tell how Lobsang Dhondup's
execution was carried out, but China's usual method is by gunshot to the
back of the head.
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Press Statement: re: Execution -- Students for Free Tibet
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January 26, 2003 For Immediate Release
Contact: John Hocevar (212) 358-0071 Thupten Tsering (347) 538-5362
China Executes Tibetan After Secret Re-Trial Tibetans and Supporters
Demand Action and Answers
[New York] Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is outraged to learn that
Chinese authorities executed Lobsang Dhondup after a secret re-trial at
the Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court. The court also upheld the
death sentence passed down to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential
Buddhist leader. Tenzin Delek Rinpoche had been sentenced to death with
a suspension of two years and Lobsang Dhondup to immediate death in a
trial at the Kandze Intermediate People’s Court in December, 2002, and
both men had reportedly appealed their sentences.
“China’s actions cannot go unanswered,” said John Hocevar, Executive
Director of Students for a Free Tibet. “The Chinese authorities misled
the US State Department during the recent US-China human rights dialogue
by failing to reveal the sweeping repression and arrests that took place
in connection with this case. This is a slap in the face to anyone
trying to dialogue with the Chinese government on human rights.”
The verdicts come unexpectedly. Just two days ago, the US Embassy in
Beijing issued a strong statement of concern about the severity of the
sentences for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup, whom the
Chinese authorities accuse of involvement in an explosion in Sichuan
last year. The US Embassy also expressed disappointment that during the
US-China Human Rights Dialogue in December the Chinese government had
failed to inform the US government of an additional ten detentions made
in connection to this case.
International outcry about the cases has been enormous. SFT members
alone have sent almost 10,000 faxes and emails calling for fair and open
trial proceedings for the men. Around the world, Tibetans and supporters
have held demonstrations and called on their governments to intervene in
a case they view as unjust.
“This should be a rude wake up call to the international community that
the rule of law remains a foreign concept in Hu Jintao’s China,” said
Thupten Tsering, of Students for a Free Tibet. “Why was the trial held
in secret and why aren’t the Chinese authorities presenting any
convincing evidence that either man was involved in a crime? Why were
officials from the US Consulate in Chengdu denied access to the trial?
Without meaningful action by world governments, there will be no justice
for Tibetans living under Chinese occupation.”
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