Relatives of two Tibetans, one executed and another...

Relatives of two Tibetans, one executed and another jailed for alleged roles in a series of bombings in western China, say the Chinese government banned them from talking about the case in public, the US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.
The relatives also said they only learned of the execution of one of the men, from a public flyer issued five days after his death, RFA said.
Relatives of Lobsang Dhondup, a 28-year-old who was executed, and Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, a 53-year-old monk who was given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve, told Radio Free Asia's Tibetan service that Chinese authorities had barred them from travelling.
"The local authorities warned us not to call outside, and they said we would be punished if we did," said one relative. "No one is allowed to talk about anything that has happened here."
The relatives, who asked not to be named, said Chinese authorities had taken the unusual step of keeping Lobsang Dhondup's body after his execution.
Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche has meanwhile been moved to a secret location.
"We are completely helpless, in a state of great fear of arrest and torture," one relative was quoted by RFA as saying, appealing to the United Nations and foreign governments to intervene.
The death sentences handed down by a court in December 2002 were upheld by a court in southwest China's Sichuan province on January 26.
Lobsang Dhondup was executed the same day.
The court also rejected an appeal by Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche to overturn the suspended death sentence. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in jail.
Lobsang Dhondup and Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, 53, were convicted in connection with bomb attacks in 2001 and 2002 which killed one person in the Kandze (Ganzi) area of Sichuan which forms the traditionally Tibetan Kham region.
Lobsang Dhondup and his co-defendant were denied representation of their choice at the first trial, and while the original trial was open, the appeal hearing was closed, because, the government claimed, "state secrets" were at risk.