China secretly executes four Tibetan protesters for role in Lhasa riots: Report.Byline: ANI London, Oct. 23 (ANI): China has reportedly executed four Tibetan protesters, including one woman, in connection with last year's deadly riots in Lhasa. The first ever-reported judicial killings of Tibetans in China have prompted overseas protests that proper legal procedures were not followed, The Guardian reports. Although the Chinese media is yet to confirm the executions, Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy has claimed that the executions took place early on Tuesday morning, it said. The Rights group identified three of the executed Tibetans as two men - Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak - and a woman named Penkyi. The fourth victim was not named. It added that the body of Lobsang Gyaltsen had been handed to his family, while Loyak's ashes were given to his relatives. In April, the Lhasa intermediate people's court An intermediate people's court (中级人民法院) is the second lowest local people's court in the People's Republic of China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China had sentenced the two men to death on charges of arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. . Under Chinese law Chinese law Law that evolved in China from the earliest times until the 20th century, when Western socialist law (see Soviet law) was introduced. The oldest extant and complete Chinese law code was compiled in AD 653 during the Tang dynasty. , death penalty cases should be reviewed by the Supreme Court, the report said. "It is impossible to have any confidence that even the most basic legal norms were observed before the Chinese state sanctioned and carried out the killing of these four Tibetans," Stephanie Brigden, director of Free Tibet, said. Following the surfacing of the execution reports, London-based Tibetan groups called for a vigil vigil (vĭj`əl) [Lat.,=watch], in Christian calendars, eve of a feast, a day of penitential preparation. In ancient times worshipers gathered for vespers before a great feast and then waited outside the church until dawn for the liturgy (Mass). outside the Chinese embassy. Free Tibet said the executions should prompt the British government to rethink the way it engages with China over the region. Labour MP Kate Hoey Catharine Letitia Hoey, known as Kate Hoey (born 21 June 1946, Belfast) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been the Member of Parliament for Vauxhall since a by-election in 1989. Background Hoey studied at Belfast Royal Academy. has tabled an early day motion calling for an inquiry into the UK government's failure to secure human rights improvements in Tibet. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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