Posted on 01/06/2010 1:49:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A Chinese court has handed a six-year prison term to a Tibetan film-maker who made an internationally watched documentary in which ordinary people aired grievances, his family said Wednesday.
Dhondup Wangchen, 35, had trekked across the Himalayan territory for five months asking about topics including Chinese rule, the exiled Dalai Lama and the Olympics which Beijing was preparing to hold in August 2008.
The self-taught film-maker was arrested in March that year as major protests erupted in Tibet. He had just completed the film, "Leaving Fear Behind," which has since been screened in more than 30 countries.
The court in Xining in Qinghai province handed him a six-year sentence after authorities accused him of subversion, his family said in a statement.
"My children and I feel desperate about the prospect of not being able to see him for so many years," said his wife Lhamo Tso, who fled to safety in India with their four children in 2006 before he started filming.
"We call on the Chinese authorities to show humanity by releasing him. My husband is not a criminal; he just tried to show the truth," she said.
The family said that the court barred him from bringing a lawyer and that the verdict was delivered quietly on December 28.
Wangchen, who had no formal education, made the film with assistance from his cousin Gyaljong Tsetrin, who has political asylum in Switzerland.
Tsetrin said that his cousin had contracted Hepatitis B through rough treatment in jail.
"I ask myself how he will survive in prison for six years," Tsetrin said.
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Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to demand the release of Tibetan movie director Dhondup Wangchen (poster) in front of the Chinese embassy in Tokyo in August 2009. A Chinese court has handed a six-year prison term to Wangchen who made an internationally watched documentary in which ordinary people aired grievances, his family said Wednesday. (AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)
More proof that....
You support Free Trade with COMMUNIST China.....you are a COMMUNIST....
Two Chinese movies have been pulled out of the Palm Springs International Film Festival in the United States in protest at the inclusion of a film about Tibet and the region's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (pictured), state-run media reported Wednesday. (AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta)
“Prison for six years” means his liver and kidneys will have a six year warranty on them when they are transplanted to paying black market customer. The organs in this case will be “imprisoned” in the body of another person.
Butchers of Beijing ping
Agents Provocateur? ["Tibetan supporter" who attacked torch bearer may be Chinese agent]
China salaries overseas Chinese for anti-Tibetan protests (rent-a-mob: $350 per head)
‘Beijing orchestrating Tibet riots’
Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan
"The cab driver was shouting at him to get out. Then they started hitting the car.
The crowd was shouting "kill him! kill the Frenchman."" (he was actually an American but small difference to a government hired mob)
That's a bit strong.
It's just those Walmart shoppers gotta have those 99 cent panties for their old ladies.
Thanks for the Ping! BTW, MArk Levin is really in good style tonight. JUST LAMBASTING obama over the closed door
helath Car legislation, played clips from Obama campaign promising to put all Health Care Bill negotioans on camera.
http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=531472
You know, much of this is happening because of Obama’s weakness .
Tibet will be entiorely thrown under the bus during the Obama presidency. Obama wouldn’t even dare to see him at the WHite House.Weak PU$$Y.
Ahemmmm ...
That’s a bit strong.
It’s just those Walmart shoppers gotta have those 99 cent panties for their old ladies.
Not at all strong.....Free Trade with Communist China supports Communism. You get this nonsense by subsidizing the ChiCom government.
Of course, you end Free Trade with Communist China....those panties can be made, again, in the USA
0bummer’s throwing every vestige of freedom and liberty in the world under the bus. He threw a lot of political capital into overthrowing Honduras on a very absurd basis. Honduras stayed strong and survived but what happens to the world if the U.S. economy goes totally belly up?
Thanks for that link. The last time I tried to get Mark’s program on the net it wouldn’t work. He’s streaming through just fine from that site. Bookmarked. Good stuff!
Remember, Marx supported free trade.
How interesting! A bunch of Americans talk about Marxism in China, or call them Chicom.
Is there anyone know a little more about China?
Communism actually has died at least 50 years ago. Nowadays, the devils in china are the large amounts of bureaucrats, they grab the profits of people and persecute any dissidents.
Marx don’t tell them control the freedom of speech.
Marx don’t tell them grab the army.
Marx don’t tell them to waste environment & human being to generate blood money.
Marx don’t tell them monopoply the national resourses.
Marx definitely forbid them steal the citizen’s properties to create the WORLD LARGEST CORRUPTION!
But these bastards do all these, better than any corrupted country.
Chinese poeple deadly hate these guys, and call them “Bureaucrat profiteering”
Trust me, the number of true Marxism disciples in PRC is fewer than its PANADAs. All the others are corrupted officers and humiliated and suffering citizens.
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