Beijing, 28 dic (EFE).- Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, who spent six years in jail for denouncing in a documentary the repression in the Tibet, He has fled from China and has managed to reach San Francisco (USA), The Filming For Tibet website reported, who organized a film support campaign.
Wangchen, of 43 years, He arrived in the Californian city in the afternoon of the 25 de diciembre "tras una ardua y arriesgada huida", highlighted a note on the website published tonight.
"Estoy disfrutando el sentimiento de seguridad y libertad", The filmmaker pointed out when he arrived in the United States, where he will meet with his wife and children.
The filmmaker was arrested in March 2008 -As part of the measures taken by Beijing against the Tibetan Revoltas that occurred then- por la realización del documental "Dejando el miedo atrás" y fue posteriormente condenado a seis años de prisión por "incitar a la subversión", A frequently used crime against dissidents.
The documentary, in which people at the foot of the Tibet spoke about issues such as the Dalai Lama, Chinese politics or Beijing Olympic Games 2008, He was awarded in 2012 With the International Prize for Freedom of Expression, granted by the American Protection Committee to journalists.
Según Filming for Tibet, Wangchen contracted hepatitis B during his prison stay, and its main assistant in the documentary, Watch Globally, He was also arrested and suffered torture.
The filmmaker fulfilled the prison sentence in a prison in the Chinese Western City of Xining, But when this ended in June 2014 He continued to undergo strict surveillance of the authorities.
His wife and children achieved political asylum in the United States in 2012, While the monk Golok Jigme managed to escape two years later to Dharamsala (India), Place of residence of the Dalai Lama and a large community of Tibetan exiles for more than half a century. EFE
