Chinese authorities have detained two Tibetan villagers who took photos of a protest in Sichuan last month during which police fired on a crowd, seriously wounding nearly a dozen people of whom four later died of untreated wounds, with another committing suicide, sources said. Many Tibetans were also detained and beaten in the violent crackdown in the Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures Sershul (Shiqu) county on Aug. 12, a day after police took local village leader Denma Wangdrak into custody after he complained to authorities over Chinese officials’ harassment of Tibetan women at a local cultural performance, according to the sources. “Two Tibetans were detained for taking photos when Tibetans marched to demand the release of Wangdrak, the leader of Shukpa village in Denma town, who had been taken away by police,” a Tibetan living in exile told RFA’s Tibetan Service on Tuesday, citing local sources. The two men who were detained, Tsekhok and Pagya, were natives of Yundok village, also in Sershul county, RFA’s source, named Tenpa, said.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:28:18 +0000
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