Kashag welcomes Chinese Lawyers’ legal help to Tibetans

Friday, 4 April 2008, 11:21 a.m.

Dharamshala:The Kashag of
Central Tibetan Administration welcomes Chinese Lawyers in China for
offering legal service to Tibetans on 3 April 2008.

” We are heartened and inspired to learn that a group of Chinese
lawyers based in Mainland China have offered their legal assistance to
Tibetan arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned by Chinese authorities
following the peaceful protests starting March 10, 2008 in Lhasa and
other Tibetan areas.” the Cabinet stated.

We are equally encouraged to note that the lawyers, while
expressing their serious concern for the well being of the arrested
Tibetans, have called upon the concerned Chinese authorities to “obey
the constitution, following the legal procedures in dealing with the
arrested Tibetans….. no torture throughout interrogation and respect
the independence of legal system”.

The statement stated, “The Kashag would like to thank all those
Chinese lawyers who have taken upon themselves to protect the legal
rights of the Tibetans as well as Chinese people and have come forward
to save the arrested Tibetans from the onslaught of a regime bent on
curbing the fundamental rights of its own people to have a fair and
just legal representation.”