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Mass arrest of Tibetans in connection with self-immolations

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Tibetans and foreign supporters carry photos of self-immolators during the final day of the four-day solidarity campaign in New Delhi on Febraury 2, 2013. (Phayul photo)

DHARAMSHALA, February 8: 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 in connection with a “string of self-immolations that have occurred since November 2012.”

The rallying cry inside Democracy Camp was to free Chen Shui-bian (Photos)

Michael Richardson

My trip to Taiwan to investigate the fairness of Chen Shui-bian’s trial coincided with a month-long march around the island by the Taiwan Justice Rescue Force. The motivation for the march was to bring attention to the case of Chen Shui-bian, the imprisoned former president of the Republic of China in-exile.

The month-long march by the Taiwan Justice Rescue Force concluded with Democracy Camp, a four-day encampment outside the presidential office building in Taipei. A visit inside the protest compound was in order.

Kuo treated unjustly by the nation’s judiciary

Open letter from the North America Taiwanese Professors’ Associa

On International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10 last year, the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee invited the Judicial Yuan and the Ministry of Justice to deliver reports on human rights and how to avoid miscarriages of justice.

The North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA) affirms the request by the committee’s convener, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Yu Mei-nu (尤美女), for these reports and to speak up on behalf of those who have been wronged.

Advertisement US broadcaster denies China’s allegations of “encouraging” Tibet immolations

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A screen grab of Tibetan nun Palden Choetso's self-immolation protest on November 3, 2012 in Tawu, eastern Tibet.

DHARAMSHALA, February 7: A major US based broadcaster, which has a widely followed Tibetan language section, has denied Chinese allegations of their involvement in encouraging Tibetan protesters to set themselves on fire.

Voice of America Director David Ensor in a release Wednesday said the allegations were “totally false,” while noting that the self-immolations are “tragic and a sign of distress in Tibet.” He further called on China Daily and CCTV to “retract their stories.”

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