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URGENT ACTION: Postcard Obama

[6 February] Take part in a worldwide campaign and send a Losar (Tibetan New Year, which is on 14 February) postcard to President Obama expressing your hope that there will be tangible outcomes from his meeting with the Dalai Lama and he will take concrete action to facilitate a just solution for the Tibetan people. STOP PRESS: [11 February] Date set for Obama to meet the Dalai Lama; 18 February in the White House Map Room.

URGENT ACTION for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

January 26 marked the 7th anniversary of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's failed appeal and Losang Dhondup's execution. “I am not guilty, please appeal for justice for me … call all people together and do everything possible to help me overturn the verdict” Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
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URGENT ACTION: Filmaker Dhondup Wangchen

Update [November 2009] A letter written by filmaker Dhondup Wangchen, who has been in detention since March 2008, has found its way out of China to his cousin in Europe. In the letter, the director of Leaving Fear Behind says his trial has started and he is not optimistic about its outcome. Dhondup also expressed his worry for his elderly parents and his uncertainty as to what his sentence would be. It has been confirmed that Dhondup has been charged with ‘inciting separatism’ and could face a harsh sentence. Fears for his health persist following Dhondup’s admission that he has been tortured, as well as contracting hepatitus B, whilst in detention.

What you can do to speak out against these abhorrent judicial executions
Harry Cohen, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet, has tabled Early Day Motion 2150: EXECUTIONS IN LHASA, TIBET, 20 OCTOBER 2009. Please urgently contact your MP to ask him or her to sign the EDM (text shown below). Also request that he or she writes to the Foreign Secretary urging that he follows up on the points made within the EDM and to ask what the Foreign Office is doing in practical terms to establish the whereabouts of of the three Tibetans who each received death sentences with a two year reprieve.

You can email or write, call your MP's constituency or Westminster office or make an appointment to meet at your MP's constituency office or Westminster. Stand up and speak out for Tibet ... we live in a democratic country where we have freedom of expression and civil rights; your MP is in parliament to represent you as a constituent and voice your concerns. We must all speak out about these shocking judicial executions that fly in the face of appeals from world governments urging the Chinese government to show clemency. Letters sent directly to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and Minister of State, Ivan Lewis, at the Foreign Office would also be useful.

International Tibet Support Network, of which Tibet Society is a member, has set up an action where Tibet supporters can email Wu Aiying, Minister of Justice in the Chinese government, to call for a stop on any further executions in Tibet. Click [here] to send an email. Other demands made in the email are: • all remaining death sentences are commuted • any further trials are conducted openly and fairly • all cases related to events of March and April 2008 are given a suspension until a full and independent inquiry into events around these dates is held • a full list of the names and whereabouts of all Tibetans still detained in relation to last years events is provided • no prisoner is subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, they are granted the right to regular visits by family members, have access to lawyers of their choice and given any necessary medical treatment needed.

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