The United States said on Tuesday it was concerned a Tibetan man executed in China for a spate of bombings and a monk given a suspended death sentence in the same case were not given a fair trial.
TCHRD has received confirmed information that Lobsang Dhundup was executed on Sunday, 26 January 2003, immedaitely after a secret trial at the Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court. The same court also reaffirmed Trulku Tenzin Delek’s death sentence with a two-year reprieve.
The Chinese government defended its execution of a Tibetan convicted of a series of bomb blasts and its rejection of the appeal of a monk sentenced to death in connection with the same case.
According to reliable sources, we are sad to learn that Lobsang Dhondup was indeed executed at seven in the morning of 26 January 2003 in Darstedo or what the Chinese call Kangding. The Tibetan communities of Delhi and Dharamsala and elsewhere have organised prayer meetings to
The Dragon does it again. The US Assistant Secretary of State, Lorne Craner has been taken for a ride by his Chinese counterparts in the mid-December human rights talks in Beijing. Craner took up the case of death sentences passed on two Tibetans during the talks.
The Yangtze River, with its long and storied place in the epic history of China, is host to a domestic controversy unlike any other in the nation – a mammoth water project that will fully submerge over 150 towns.
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.
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.
The Higher People's Court of Sichuan Province in Chengdu confirmed on Sunday 26 January 2003 the death sentences given to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and his aide and relative Lobsang Thondup.
