TIBETANS, SUPPORTERS WORLDWIDE APPEAL FOR RELEASE OF AILING TIBETAN MONK JAILED BY CHINA

People signing petition at the Main square in Mcleod Ganj.

40,000 Signature Petition Delivered to Chinese Government in Support of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

Dharamshala – Tibetans and their supporters joined a global day of action today for the release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly revered religious leader and community organizer from eastern Tibet who is currently serving a life sentence in Chinese prison. In cities around the world, demonstrators delivered a 40,000 signature petition to Chinese embassies and consulates denouncing China’s unjust imprisonment of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche. In Dharamshala, more than ten thousand petition signatures were sent by fax and courier to Chinese authorities in Beijing and to the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. The petition text mirrored a similar petition signed by 40,000 Tibetans in Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s home region of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet (Chinese: Sichuan Province ). Members of Tenzin Delek’s family attempted to deliver the petition to the Chinese government in December 2009 but were stopped en route to Beijing.

“Like all Tibetan prisoners of conscience, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche did not receive a fair trial under Chinese law. Now is the time for his case to be re-opened and a new trial to be granted in accordance with international legal standards, especially given his deteriorating health condition,” said Ngawang Woebar, President of Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet and a former political prisoner. “We sent 40,000 signatures from around the world to the Chinese government today to press for the release of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who has served nine years of an unjust prison sentence. We are also standing in solidarity with Tibetans in Tibet who have risked their lives to appeal for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s freedom, and call on the international community to join our appeal for this innocent Tibetan monk.” (more…)

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Tsewang Dhondup’s 2008: A Testimony

SFT India organized a talk by Tsewang Dhondup at Tibetan Children’s Village school. Tsewang participated in the 2008 uprising in Tibet and was shot twice trying to save an injured monk shot by armed Chinese police in the protest in Dango, Kardze of eastern Tibet.

Tsewang’s motive for his escape was to give testimony to the world about what happened during the peaceful uprising and the critical situation in Tibet. He also holds a very strong will to talk to the younger Tibetan generation in exile about the hardships faced by Tibetans inside Tibet.

The talk at Tibetan Children’s Village school is the beginning of a series of talk that SFT India is organizing for Tsewang Dhondup.

TIBET’S PANCHEN LAMA TURNS 21

This Sunday, April 25th, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet’s second most important spiritual leader will turn 21 years old and spend another birthday as a prisoner of the Chinese government.

TAKE ACTION: Join the Global Call for the Panchen Lama’s Release

* Sign a petition to China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.
* Send a birthday wish to the Gendun Choekyi Nyima.
* Write a message of support to him & his family.

In 1995, after being recognized by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, Chinese authorities kidnapped the boy and his family. He has not been seen nor heard from since. Read more about how you can help push for his release.