28/09/2016 13:12
Beijing, 28 sep (EFE).- Police of the Chinese province of Sichuan (west) A Tibetan has been arrested for participating in a ceremony in which a photograph of the Dalai Lama was shown, whom Beijing accuses of inciting Tibet separatism, Radio Free Asia reported today
Dowa Samdrub was taken into police custody in Serthar County, in the province through which the Tibetan plateau extends, the station said, based in the USA.
The detainee held a portrait of the Dalai Lama as a sign of respect, sources close to the case said, They added that the police showed up at the ceremony and arrested him.
Samdrub was already imprisoned for distributing pamphlets calling for the freedom of Tibet and regained his freedom last year. 13 of August.
His case adds to the list of detainees in Tibet and Chinese provinces with Tibetan populations (just Sister, Qinghai o Gansu) for supporting the dalai lama, exiled in Dharamsala (India) since the 50, or the secession of Tibet.
A report published last May by Human Rights Watch (HRW) denunció que la represión del Gobierno chino en áreas tibetanas se ha vuelto "implacable", and that the victims of this persecution are no longer just monks, but singers, writers or citizens linked to the defense of the environment.
"Simplemente tener una imagen o un texto considerado sensible (by the regime) en el móvil o el ordenador podía llevar a una dura sentencia de cárcel", the document highlighted.
HRW also documented situations of police violence against protesters or people in peaceful acts., such as the case of several Tibetans who organized a picnic to celebrate the Dalai Lama's birthday in the province of Sichuan and who were attacked with gunfire by security forces in 2013.
Beijing not only does not recognize the Dalai Lama, but accuses him of being behind the tensions and pro-independence protests, sometimes in the form of immolations, which have existed for years in the Tibet Autonomous Region and neighboring Sichuan, Gansu y Qinghai.
Tensions reached their highest point in recent decades in March 2008, when dozens of people died in riots that started in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and spread throughout several Chinese provinces. EFE
