China sentences Tibetan to 13 years
In no let up to the sentencing of Tibetans in connection with the self-immolations protests, another Tibetan was today sentenced to 13 years in jail by a Chinese court.The sentencing comes even as the United States and international rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have condemned earlier similar court rulings, calling the prosecutions “utterly without credibility.”
Allow Tibetans to express grievances: US tell China
Even as China intensified its crackdown on the self-immolation protests in Tibet with the mass detention of 70 Tibetans, the United State called on China to allow Tibetans express their grievances freely. US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland appealed the Chinese leadership to hold substantive dialogue
Mass arrest of Tibetans in connection with self-immolations
In a first of its kind mass arrest in connection with the ongoing wave of self-immolation protests in Tibet, Chinese authorities have arrested 70 Tibetans in eastern Tibet. Chinese state media Xinhua on Thursday cited police in the Malho region as saying that the “criminal suspects” were captured