Two Tibetan students detained for public display and design of “illegal team flag and emblem”
By Choekyi Lhamo
DHARAMSHALA, Mar. 11: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) on Thursday released a report of detained Tibetan students for promoting a self-designed flag and emblem for a local football team in Tsolho (Ch: Hainan), Qinghai Province in Amdo. The rights group said a Tibetan student named Jampa Tsering was sentenced for one year and six months in prison for “inciting separatism” along with one year of “deprivation of political rights” on Feb. 23.
However, Jampa’s sentence has been suspended for two years and has been currently placed under probation. Another student named Dugkar Tsering was exempted from any criminal punishment since it was his first offence. Both of them had their mobile phones confiscated by the officials. Jampa Tsering was sentenced last August and was held guilty for “publicly displaying the flag and logo of the footba
IN-DEPTH / IN-DEPTH By GT staff reporters Published: Mar 09, 2021 04:16 AM
NED s spending on anti-China institutes and projects in 2020 Source: NED website Graphic: GT
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a veteran anti-China foundation financed by the US government, has been discovered to have spent more than $10 million to fund secessionist organizations and subversive activities in China in 2020. In the financial statements published on NED s website in February, at least 69 programs and activities related to secessionists and anti-China forces received grants in the past year, maliciously interfering in China s internal affairs using pretexts like human rights and religious freedom.
NED is notorious for propagating anti-China propaganda and meddling in other countries internal affairs. Funding for this self-proclaimed private, nonprofit organization, which largely comes from the US Congress, has long been funneled to secessionists in China s Hong Kong, Xinjiang,
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