Tibetan Monk
Tibetans demonstrate outside Chinese embassy in Paris against death of young monk Tenzin Nyima
Paris: The Tibetan community demonstrated outside the Chinese Embassy in French capital Paris recently against the death of Tibetan monk Tenzin Nyima.
Nyima allegedly died due to injuries sustained from beatings and torture in a Chinese prison.
The demonstration was held by Students for Free Tibet on Saturday.
The demonstrators also carried Tibetans' flags and placards and raised slogans against the Xi Jinping government of China.
They even demanded for freedom of Tibet from Chinese rule.
Chinese authorities should account for the death of a 19-year-old Tibetan monk recently released from police custody, Human Rights Watch said recently.
The authorities also should release six other young Tibetans – including a 16-year-old boy – sentenced to up to five years in prison for involvement in the same peaceful protests.
The young monk, Tenzin Nyima (also called Tamay), was from Dza Wonpo monastery, in Wonpo township, Kandze (Ch: Ganzi) prefecture, a Tibetan area within Sichuan province.
The authorities initially detained him on November 9, 2019, two days after he and three other Wonpo monks briefly distributed leaflets and shouted slogans calling for Tibetan independence outside the local Wonpo government office.
The protests occurred as local officials increasingly put pressure on forcibly resettled nomads and local residents to publicly praise the government’s “Poverty Alleviation” program.
“Chinese authorities have once again turned arbitrary detention into a death sentence,” said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. “They should hold to account all those responsible for the brutal killing of the Tibetan monk Tenzin Nyima.”
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