New York/Beijing - The New York Time reports today on its online edition about Dhondup Wangchen being moved to the labor camp. The excellent report gives some background information about the death sentences suspended and harsh prison terms for Tibetans in Tibet.
New York Times: (...) Among those given jail time were Dhondup Wangchen, a Tibetan filmmaker who is serving a six-year term for making a documentary that features ordinary Tibetans talking about the approaching 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In recent weeks a number of organizations, including Amnesty International, have taken up Mr. Wangchen’s plight in an effort to bring attention to what they say is his failing health. Family members say he contracted hepatitis B while in custody and has since been moved to a labor camp in Qinghai Province where conditions are thought to be especially harsh.
Two lawyers who were hired to represent Mr. Wangchen during his trial and subsequent appeal were forced to drop the case after they were threatened with the closing of their law firm, according to Amnesty International.
Dechen Pemba, a British woman who helped smuggle raw footage from Mr. Wangchen’s documentary out of China, said his friends and family were increasingly dispirited by their inability to obtain any official information about his health or his whereabouts.(...)