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Tibet Political Prisoner
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Tibetan human rights organization says 1,809 known Tibetan political prisoners are currently in Chinese prisons

| @indiablooms | Dec 14, 2021, at 01:49 am

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a Tibetan non-governmental human rights organization based in Dharamshala in India, has launched an online database with information on 5,518 Tibetan political prisoners compiled since 1990.

The initiative is in collaboration with Geneva-based Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS)'s application Uwazi.

Phayul.com reported, quoting researcher Tenzin Dawa, that 3,067 prisoners have been released so far whereas 1,809 people are still under detention in Chinese prisons.

TCHRD said the database, which is launched on the occasion of International Human Rights Day on Friday (Dec 10), will be updated with new information procured from observers.

“The database was compiled after reviewing older documents in TCHRD’s archive and cross-checking with other similar databases," the organization said.

"The database includes county-level GPS coordinates of each prisoner’s place of origin,” read the press release.

“All of these are verified cases which have been put in the database with sufficient proof, and 5,518 is not a small number!" researcher Nyima Woeser told the media. 

"This alone should make China answerable for their atrocities, if only it was a country that accepted the truth,” the researcher added.

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