TCHRD URGES CHINA TO OVERTURN DEATH SENTENCES IN TIBET

the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) expressed its deepest concern at the first known cases of death sentences passed by the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court in China on two Tibetans. The Centre urges the Chinese authorities to overturn the death sentences passed on Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak and calls for commutation of death sentences. The Centre is seriously concerned about the fairness of the legal procedures according to international standards for fair trial and the treatment of the detainees who were held for more than a year in custody prior to their court sentencing.