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Tibetan And Indian Parliamentarians Demand Trulku’s Release
Dharamsala 2 December: The Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies and the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet jointly expressed their deep anguish and concern over the impending death sentence of Trulku Tenzin Delek whose two-year reprieve ended yesterday.
In a letter addressed to the Chinese president Hu Jintao, the ATPD Vice Chairperson Gyari Dolma who is in the Indian capital urged the government of People’s Republic of China to ensure a fair trial for Trulku as laid down in the Constitution and the Criminal Procedural Law of China.
Meanwhile, a press release was also issued by the ATPD from Delhi wherein the Indian and international friends of Tibet were appealed to help save the life of Trulku Tenzin Delek.
The APIPFT, in a memorandum sent to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, expressed concern over the ‘human rights violations in Tibet and in particular the expiry of Trulku’s reprieved death sentence on 25 January, 2005.
The Indian parliamentarians’ group also urged the Prime Minister to ‘intervene on the issue with the Chinese leadership to save the life of a simple Buddhist monk’.
Three Indian MPs along with their counterparts from the Tibetan administration based here tried to march to the Chinese embassy in New Delhi to hand over the memorandum but were stopped by police. The police briefly detained the Tibetan parliamentarians but allowed the Indian legislators to the embassy where their memorandum was refused to be accepted.
"They asked us to leave it under the building gate", Thupen Tsewang, one of the MPs was quoted as saying by AFP.
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