Tibetan Women’s Association seeks the release of the 30 Tibetans sentenced to imprisonment.
In yet another unprecedented and unfair move, The Intermediate People's Court in Lhasa on 29th April, 2008 convicted 30 Tibetans and doled out a harsh and unjust punishment by sentencing them to a term of three years to life imprisonment for their alleged role in the recent riots in Lhasa.
Tibetan Women’s Association in voicing out our deep resentment against this unfair decision, we express our deepest support and sympathy to the 30 Tibetans. In today’s global community and justice driven world, this imprudent act comes in the face of Chinese government’s ruthless and brutal crackdown on the peaceful Tibetan protestors in Tibet. This fast track arbitrary sentence reflects on the Chinese government’s unjust political rule in Tibet and it`s complete disregard of the basic values of human rights.
Amidst such Chinese state paranoiac act of sentencing the peaceful protestors to lifetime imprisonment, we fear that this heinous act could recoil Tibet and we also fear that it marks the beginning of a gross, grave and grievous human rights tragedy in Tibet. It also signals the overtures that will take precedence of the worst that is to follow for the thousands of Tibetans arrested in wake of the recent peaceful uprising in Tibet.
TWA calls on the Intermediate People's Court in Lhasa and the legal Judicial proceedings of the Chinese state to review the case and to immediately release the 30 sentenced Tibetans since they were merely exercising their basic human rights; freedom of speech and expression. We also pray for the 203 Tibetans killed in the protest, we seek medical relief for the more than 1,000 injured Tibetans and we demand the release and presence of more than 5,715 Tibetans who either remain detained or have been missing.
We also make an earnest and an urgent appeal to the Human Rights advocates and the International body of Law and Justice to see into this crucial case and address our concerns to stop the debacle of International Human Rights Law in Tibet and significantly to avert the looming threat and danger that befalls Tibet and Tibetans. Tibet as a nation needs to survive and thrive.