Subject: [permaculture] Beijing and Tibet: GRL's James Powderly, Brian of "Alive in Baghdad, 4 other US citizens receive 10-day jail sentence - Boing Boing
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:28:36 -0400
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Beijing and Tibet: GRL's James Powderly, Brian of "Alive in Baghdad, 4 other
US citizens receive 10-day jail sentence
Posted by Xeni Jardin, August 21, 2008 8:44 AM | permalink
A representative of Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that 6 American bloggers and pro-Tibet activists who
went missing in Beijing for days after being detained by authorities have re-appeared -- and that authorities have given
them a sentence of ten days in jail each for "upsetting public order."
The names of the missing bloggers/vloggers and activists presumed to have
been those jailed:
Details on SFT website http://tinyurl.com/5s3sf7, with statements from that group alleging recent extra-judicial
executions and detentions of ethnic Tibetan protesters inside Tibet:
A Tibetan nun named Sonam Yungzom is reported to have been shot while shouting slogans in Kardze town, eastern
Tibet (now part of Sichuan province) on August 10th. One source says she yelled out: “There are no human rights in
China, there is brutal oppression in Tibet, still the Olympics go on in China.” She was hit by five to six bullets and
then her body was thrown in a vehicle and taken away.
Snip from a news article about the jailed protesters in Beijing:
In a brief faxed statement, the city police information department said "Thomas" and five other foreigners had been
apprehended on Tuesday for "upsetting public order", without identifying the six people any further.
"Beijing police decided to give the six 10 days of administrative
detention," the faxed statement said.
Administrative detention is a punishment that can be meted out by Chinese police without having to go through the
courts. Students For a Free Tibet said it assumed the six were American pro-Tibet activists who police detained in
Beijing on Tuesday.
"These young men were in Beijing to amplify Tibetan voices calling for freedom and human rights and the right of
all people to freedom of expression," Students For a Free Tibet executive director Lhadon Tethong said.
[permaculture] Beijing and Tibet: GRL's James Powderly, Brian of "Alive in Baghdad, 4 other US citizens receive 10-day jail sentence - Boing Boing,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 08/22/2008