Re: Tibetans Held Over Internet.

Sure esp those who spite other religion n race........ Christian like
you ought to be hung by the balls!

Bloody liar too claiming to have studied in UK when the furthest you
have gone is Polytechnic in Singapore and staying in pathetic Tanglin
Halt in a one-room HDB with two old farts you called papa n mother!


On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:18:59 +0800, "AleXX"
<alexx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes. Those who flouted the laws need to be punished.
This is not news.


"Peter Terpstra" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1564673.GUtdWV9SEq@xxxxxxxxx
Tibetans Held Over Internet
2010-03-24

Sharing news during 2008 protests lands Tibetans in jail.



HONG KONG-At least 50 Tibetans have been detained or sentenced for passing
on
information relating to protests that swept through Tibetan regions of
China
in the wake of rioting in Lhasa last year, a press freedom group said.

"The latest to be convicted is a netizen called Dasher who has been given
a
10-year prison sentence on a charge of 'separatism' for sending reports
and
photos of the March 2008 protests," Paris-based Reporters Without Borders
(RSF) said in a statement on its Web site.

It said Dasher was convicted and sentenced by an intermediate court in
Lhasa
in late February, although the exact date of his trial was unknown.

He is currently being held in Lhasa's Chushur prison, the statement said.

Father also sentenced

The group quoted "a representative of the National Democratic Party, a
Tibetan
exile organization" as saying the reason for his conviction was his
reports
and photos of the protests.

Dasher is also the son of Adri Rinpoche, head of a Tibetan Buddhist
monastery
who is also being sentenced to prison by the Chinese authorities, RSF
said.

U.S.-based lama and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Arjia Rinpoche said the
clampdown
on those using the Internet shows the ruling Chinese Communist Party is
afraid
of further demonstrations and protests.

"What is at the root of an uprising? It's the exchange of information,"
Arjia
Rinpoche said.

"After the demonstrations in March 2008, the news came out very fast on
Radio
Free Asia, Voice of America, the BBC, and afterwards it spread very
quickly."

"There are two aspects to their control of information. One is that they
are
afraid that information will spread quickly, so that the demonstrations
will
increase, and the other is that other people inside China will hear about
the
demonstrations," he said.

"They care very much about public opinion, not just in the Tibetan region
but
also in the areas populated by Han Chinese as well."

Downloaded photos

RSF said it had verified at least 50 detentions of Tibetans with the
India-
based Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, "for sending
information
out of China."

"Most of this material was sent via the Internet, which is under very
close
surveillance in Tibet," the group said.

It cited the detention in mid-February of Tashi, a 24-year-old Tibetan
from
Rata, a village in the district of Sog, in eastern Tibet.

Tashi was accused of having contact with people overseas and watching
political videos online, and is currently being held in Nagchu district.

Another Sog district resident, known by a single name, Gyaltsing
[alternate
spelling, Gyaltsen], was handed a three-year jail-term in December for
"communicating information to contacts outside China" after he downloaded
photos of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom
Beijing
blames for inciting the protests.

The group quoted Tibetan journalists as saying that a campaign of
reeducation
in Sog had led to the arrest of several Tibetans for refusing to comply
with
the "Love your religion, love your country" campaign.

Original reporting in Mandarin by Yang Jiadai. Mandarin service director:
Jennifer Chou. Translated and written for the Web in English by Luisetta
Mudie. Edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.

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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/internet-03242010111732.html



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Amnesty International Report 2009 on China:
http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/asia-pacific/china


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