A group of Tibetan writers and journalists have been arrested one after another recently. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders condemned the actions, issuing a statement saying "It is a disgrace for China that Tibet-based writers and journalists are not allowed to express their views freely and criticize the government in Beijing. Most of them are being held without trial in unknown locations."
The arrested Tibetans include Kunga Tsayang, Drokru Tsultrim, Khang Kunchok, and Tashi Rabten; their whereabouts are now unknown, according to Woeser, a Tibetan writer in Beijing.
Kunga Tsayang, for example, is a monk in the Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Qinghai Province, and is a popular writer, photographer, and member of the local environmental protection association. He has written articles to praising the Dalai Lama and promoting prevention of AIDS. He was taken from the Labrang monastery in Gansu province by police on March 17, 2009.
Others had been previously imprisoned by Chinese authorities for speaking out against alleged abuses by the CCP.
Woeser’s blog also revealed last Wednesday the suicide of a junior high school student from the Number One Middle School in Jianza county in Huangnan, Qinghai province, late last year. In his will, he said that he hoped his death would bring awareness to the plight of Tibetans and prove to the world the Tibetan people have no personal rights. In his will he also expressed the hope that Tibetans would unite and strive for their freedoms. After the incident was reported widely the principal of the school was dismissed, while the director was transferred.
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