[Mb-hair] Urgent Action: Tibetan Monks & Nuns Imprisoned for Olympics Protest

[Barbara Siomos]

China has already started to jail the Tibetan Monks.... only for  a protest. :-(

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Students for a Free Tibet
Sent: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:01:14 -0800
To: Barbara Siomos
Subject: Urgent Action: Tibetan Monks & Nuns Imprisoned for Olympics Protest


As the Winter Olympic Games open today in Turino, Italy, reports
from Tibet confirm that three nuns and two monks were imprisoned
for protesting the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and calling for
Tibetan independence. Tibet Watch has just confirmed that two of
the nuns, Tadrin Tsomo and Choekyi Drolma and one of the monks,
Dargye Gyatso were all sentenced to three years imprisonment for
distributing and posting protest fliers. The third nun, Yonten
Drolma and another monk, Jamyang Samdrub, were both sentenced to
one and a half years imprisonment. All five were arrested in May
2005 in Labrang County, Kham (south west region of Tibet). 

Please send the letter below to China's Minister of Justice,
Zhang Fusen, calling for their unconditional release.

You can take action on this alert either via email (please see
directions below) or via the web at:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/urgentolympicsaction/deii8izp53nk7x?

Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/urgentolympicsaction/forward/deii8izp53nk7x?

We encourage you to take action by March 11, 2006

Urgent Action: Tibetan Monks & Nuns Imprisoned for Olympics
Protest

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:
If you have access to a web browser, you can take action on this
alert by going to the following URL:

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/urgentolympicsaction/deii8izp53nk7x? 

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA EMAIL:
Just choose the "reply to sender" option on your email program.

Your letter will be addressed and sent to:
Minister of Justice, Zhang Fusen 

----THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT IN YOUR NAME----
Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

I am writing to express concern regarding the imprisonment of
three nuns, Tadrin Tsomo, Choekyi Drolma and Yonten Drolma from
Gendun Tengye Ling Nunnery, and two monks, Dargye Gyatso and
Jamyang Samdrub from Labrang Tashikyil Monastery. They were
detained for peacefully expressing their opinion and calling on
the Chinese Government to peacefully resolve the conflict in
Tibet.

Their arrest is a violation of Article 19 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and Article 19 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which guarantee
the freedom of opinion and expression.

I call for the immediate and unconditional release of the five
monks and nuns arrested in May 2005, and for them to be allowed
to return to their respective monastery and nunnery.

----END OF LETTER TO BE SENT----

Sincerely,
Barbara Siomos

cc:
China's Ambassador to the United Nations, Guangya Wang 

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