Human Rights Watch Urges China India Nepal to immediately Release Arrested Unarmed Tibetans

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Human Rights Watch Friday asked India, Nepal and China to release
Tibetans detained for trying to observe their 1959 uprising day
against Chinese rule.

Human Rights Watch, in a report released in Washington, said the
governments should allow the Tibetans to demonstrate peacefully.

Human Rights Watch issued its call after Tibetans in Lhasa, Tibet, and
Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal were dispersed and arrested as
they tried to observe the anniversary of their failed uprising against
Chinese rule.

The rally also was designed to protest China's being the host of the
Olympic Games this summer.

Instead of arresting peaceful protesters, why don't these governments
meet with them and attempt to address their grievances? said Sophie
Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.

Human Rights Watch said in the past 50 years, the Chinese government
has arrested, detained, and tortured countless Tibetans -- including
monks, nuns and children -- protesting Chinese rule.

In India, where the Tibetan spiritual head the Dalai Lama lives in
exile and leads the Tibetan government in exile, police have detained
more than 100 Tibetan refugees as they marched to protest the Olympic
Games in Beijing.