UN human rights experts demand information from China about ‘disappeared’ Tibetans

1 year ago

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) welcomes a statement by several UN human rights experts, whose comments included a discussion of the cases of nine missing Tibetans. The six UN special rapporteurs and representatives of three working groups on specific human rights violations are demanding that Beijing provide information on the “fate and whereabouts” of the nine Tibetans. The UN experts also call for information about other victims of Chinese human rights violations. Among them is the well-known Uyghur economist and activist Ilham Tohti, who has been in Chinese custody for eleven years and was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament.

“We expressly welcome the fact that the UN experts are persistently advocating on behalf of persecuted Tibetans, Uyghur, and Chinese activists and human rights defenders to the Chinese govern...

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