November15, 2008
Press Release
Arbitrary conviction of peaceful demonstrators continue
1) According to a reliable source the then Tibetan radio broadcaster of Tso-Ngon Province and the renowned Tibetan female writer and singer Jamyang Kyi who was arrested in April and released with monetary penalty was reported to have arrested again on 10th November. The reason why she was arrested is not known. We have learnt that during her detention in April, she was brutally tortured about which she has written an article in the internet in which she had also mentioned the conviction of Waesa Norzin Wangmo and the arrest of monk Jigme of Lhadrang Monastery on 1st September.
2) On 14th November at 9.30 a.m. Dhartsedo People’s Intermediate Court announced sentence to monk Palden Thinley aged 20 of 7 years imprisonment for taking part in the peaceful demonstration and shouting slogan of Tibet’s Independence. On 18th May this year he and his four companions tried all ways to enter Karze town and distributed a big full of documents of Tibet’s Independence and shouted slogan of Tibet’s Independence. They were later arrested by the security personals of the area, who brutally beat them till half dead and were imprisoned.
In view of the ongoing critical situation inside Tibet, we urge the United Nations, the International communities and organizations to call upon the leadership of Peoples’ Republic of China to urgently follow “Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment” and to implement the following:1. To immediately allow an independent international fact-finding mission into Tibet 2. To allow unfettered access to free press in whole of Tibet 3. To immediately stop the brutal arrest, detention and killing in the whole of Tibet 4. To immediately release all the innocent arrested and imprisoned Tibetans 5. To immediately stop the unfair trail and unjustified conviction of the peaceful demonstrators
Tibetan Solidarity Committee