This weekend, the Olympic Torch will pass through Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The torch arrives just three months after 4,000 anti-government protesters were rounded up in the capital. On Wednesday, Amnesty International reported that more than a quarter of them remain unaccounted for.
Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific director, Sam Zarifi, said, “There is very little information coming out of Tibet, but the information we have paints a dire picture of arbitrary detentions and abuse of detainees. With the torch relay about to enter Tibetan areas, this should be an opportunity to shine some light on the situation there.”
Here in New York City, Tibetan exiles and sympathizers are doing just that. The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress and Students for a Free Tibet have scheduled a series of protests over the weekend at the Chinese consulate in New York and at the UN criticizing China’s human rights record. Back in April, Columbia Journalism students spoke to leaders from both groups.
Watch a report about the protests:
Video report produced by Anup Kaphle and Dave Mayers.
dddjfwis Says:
they are not real tibentans.they even dont know how tibentan people’s life is now.people should go to tibet and try to konw the real tibet and real tibetans.and by the way these people are not tibentan students either.