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The EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr Stavros Lambrinidis went on his first official visit to China from 9-18 September 2013. The mission also included five-days in the ethnic Tibetan areas of Qinghai Province and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
European External Action Service Press Release, 20 September 2013 http://eeas.europa.eu/statements/docs/2013/130920_02_en.pdf The EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr Stavros Lambrinidis, paid an official visit to China from 9-18 September 2013. Hosted by the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs, who facilitated meetings throughout the visit, the mission included five-days in the ethnic Tibetan areas of Qinghai […]
On August 16 it was reported that the Intermediate People’s Court in Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture had sentenced a Tibetan man to death for ‘killing his wife and burning her body to make it look as if she had self-immolated.’
Two Tibetan monks were shot in the head and several others seriously injured after Chinese police opened fire at a crowd gathered to peacefully celebrate the 78th birthday of the Dalai Lama in Nyitso, Tawu, Eastern Tibet, on Saturday 6th July.
The European Observer published an article by British MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament Edward McMillan-Scott on the current EU human rights strategy and its shortcomings.
Proposals to display portraits of the Dalai Lama, end denunciation of the Tibetan leader, and lessen police presence in monasteries have been discussed at a series of meetings in Qinghai, according to several unofficial Tibetan sources. The news emerged following the publication of bold new suggestions of engagement with the Dalai Lama and critique of policy on Tibet by Professor Jin Wei from the Central Party School.
The International Campaign for Tibet strongly supports the candidature of Mrs. Tsering Woeser, a Tibetan activist and writer, as a candidate for the 2013 edition of the Sakharov Prize. Woeser represents one of the rare, accessible dissenting voices on Tibet within the People’s Republic of China.
The European Parliament’s Tibet Intergroup held its 97th meeting by hosting a conference on the state of Tibet’s environment. The conference, jointly organized by the Office of Tibet in Brussels, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) took place on 19th June. Keynote speaker was Tenzin Norbu, Head of the Environment and Development Desk of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).
French journalist Cyril Pain has been harassed and threatened by Chinese diplomats since French TV news station France 24 broadcast his documentary “Seven Days in Tibet” on 30 May 2013. Reporters Without Borders writes: “Such unacceptable behaviour might be expected from the mafia but not from senior diplomats. It is acceptable for an embassy to express its disagreement with a report. But it is completely unacceptable for diplomats stationed in France and Thailand to try to intimidate a news outlet into modifying editorial content, to harangue a journalist and to summon him with the intention of interrogating him.”
Today the European Voice published an article by Edward Lucas entitled “The Tibetan Test” on the importance of the Tibetan issue in EU-China relations.