Tashi Wangchuk (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug) born in 1985 in Kyegudo, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the former Tibetan province of Amdo the current province of Qinghai, is a Tibetan activist defending the teaching of the Tibetan language after he appeared in a New York Times video in 2015.[1] He was sentenced on 22 May 2018 in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu to five years prison for "incitement to separatism".[2] According to Amnesty International, "Tashi’s treatment exposes the ruthless lengths to which the Chinese authorities will go to silence those who ask the government to stop cultural assimilation."[3]
Tashi Wangchuk has been brought home healthy from prison on 28 January 2021 his lawyer Liang Xiaojun told.[4]
References
edit- ^ Edward Wong, China to Try Tibetan Education Advocate Detained for 2 Years, The New York Times, 30 December 2017
- ^ "A Tibetan Tried to Save His Language. China Handed Him 5 Years in Prison". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
- ^ "China: Tibetan activist handed grotesquely unjust 5 year prison sentence after featuring in New York Times video". Amnesty International. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
- ^ "China entlässt Tibet-Aktivisten nach fünf Jahren Haft". orf.at (in German). 29 January 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.