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Tashi Wangchuk

Image: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) Twitter page

China releases Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Feb 03, 2021, at 04:42 pm

Beijing: Chinese authorities have released Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk from prison.

The former political prisoner was arrested in Nov 2015, after the publication of an interview by the New York Times, in which he talked about his work to defend Tibetan language rights, reports Free Tibet website.

One of Wangchuk’s lawyers, Liang Xiaojun, announced in a tweet that staffers from the Justice Bureau had taken the activist to his sister’s home in Trindu (in Chinese, Chenduo) county, in Qinghai province’s Yulshul (Yushu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and that his family members said, “he’s in good health" , reports RFA.

The language advocate and political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk has finally been released after completing a five-year prison sentence. Tashi was released today, 28 January 2021, five years and one day after he was first detained.

More details:https://t.co/yv38MLiQaq
— Free Tibet (@freetibetorg) January 28, 2021

He has been released from prison after five years of prison sentence.

Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk has been released after five years in prison for “inciting separatism”. All because he campaigned for the Tibetan language to be taught in Tibet’s schools. But how free will he be? pic.twitter.com/9qakdjDVa8
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) January 28, 2021

From the moment Tashi Wangchuk was arrested, Free Tibet pushed for his release with a series of actions targeting the Chinese authorities, international governments, the European Union and United Nations.

Tibetan businessman Tashi Wangchuk just spent five years in a Chinese prison because he campaigned for Tibetan language education, including in interviews with The New York Times. It's still not clear that he is really free. https://t.co/OgpDvArXUN pic.twitter.com/1vuvxNUWuf
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) January 29, 2021

The international pressure from Tibet groups including Free Tibet drew significant attention to his case, with governments, United Nations human rights bodies and even linguists and writers pressing Beijing for his release, reports Free Tibet.

#TashiWangchuk #Tibet #China

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