Dharamsala, December 2 – Activists of Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) here today took out a procession to demand the release of Tulku Tenzin Delek, who is facing death sentence by a Chinese court.
The procession started from the main temple in McLeodganj and ended outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Kangra. In their speeches, leaders of the TYC said Tulku Tenzin Delek had been “wrongly condemned, unfairly tried and unlawfully sentenced to death for the crimes he did not commit.”
After six years of religious education in India, Tulku had returned to Tibet in 1987 to dedicate himself to serving the Tibetans. Apart from spearheading the major anti-deforestation drives, he was instrumental in building several monasteries, schools and old-age homes, said the TYC leaders.
Meanwhile, the Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies (ATPD) and the All-Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet jointly expressed their deep anguish and concern over the impending death sentence of Trulku Tenzin Delek, whose two-year reprieve ended on December 1.
In a letter addressed to the Chinese President Hu Jintao, the ATPD Vice-Chairperson Gyari Dolma urged the Government of People’s Republic of China to ensure a fair trial for Tulku as laid down in the Constitution and the Criminal Procedural Law of China.
