Octogenarian Tibetan Sentenced to 7 Years’ Imprisonment

China is still at it, all while the world turns away. They had their Summer Olympics, but China has not honored its alleged commitment for greater civil rights of the Tibetan people.

How does a country destroy a people and its culture? They destroy it by imprisoning or killing its traditional practitioners of that culture. When the teacher is gone, then the students cannot learn their traditional ways.

China uses some trumped up charge and “splitist” theory to imprison Tibetan teachers. What did Norbu do? He’s a traditional printer!

Octogenarian Tibetan Sentenced to 7 Years’ Imprisonment
The international community should protest the imprisonment and secret sentencing of Paljor Norbu, an 81-year-old Tibetan traditional printer, and seek his immediate exoneration and unconditional release, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

According to HRW, Norbu was taken by the police from his home in Lhasa on October 31, 2008, on suspicion that he had printed “prohibited material,” including the banned Tibetan flag. During his detention, judicial authorities refused to inform his relatives that he was being detained, or to reveal the charges against him, HRW said on its website. “He was tried in secret in November and sentenced to seven years in prison. A letter informing his family of the sentence was then hand-delivered to them. His current whereabouts are unknown.”

“Just about any material on Tibet that lacks the Chinese Communist Party’s explicit blessing is ‘prohibited material,’” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “But no one should be jailed for printing flags, books, or pictures just because a government would prefer to suppress those ideas – that’s why freedom of expression is a basic right.”

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