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Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell renewed calls for the abolition of the death penalty in China following the execution of Lobsang Dhondup and the sentencing to death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.

Spokespersons for the United States Government, both at the State Department in Washington, D.C., and the American Embassy in Beijing, have expressed concern at the execution of Lobsang Dhondup

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Tibetan exiles staged a rally in the Indian capital Tuesday to protest the execution in China of a compatriot convicted of a series of bomb blasts. Some 80 Tibetan men and women marched to the mausoleum of Mahatma Gandhi

Amnesty International today expressed dismay at reports that Lobsang Dhondup was executed yesterday following his conviction in a secret trial for involvement in a series of bombings in Sichuan province.

The German foreign ministry on Monday expressed its "grave concern" at the execution of a Tibetan activist convicted after a string of bomb blasts in southwestern China, saying it contradicted assurances which China had given the European Union.

Your Excellency, Following up on my appeal to Your Excellency on December 10, 2002 regarding the unfair trials and denial of legal due process to Tulku Tenzin Delek, a prominent Tibetan spiritual leader and Lobsang Dhondup

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.