Rights groups concern over Tibet repression after Olympics Dharamshala, 7 August, TibetNet: A human rights group-based in Dharamshala said Wednesday the Chinese government has reneged from its pledge to improve human rights on getting the right to host the Olympic Games and expressed serious concern over more repressions to follow in Tibet after the Games. "The Chinese government has also defied the strong appeal from the international community to better human rights in Tibet," said Mr Ugen Tenzin, executive director of the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), during the launch of a documentary on peaceful demonstrations in Tibet. "On the contrary, it [Chinese government] has stepped up the policies of repression, including clamp down on peaceful demonstrations, restrictions on the freedom of expression and religious freedom, impose arbitrary arrests, torture and verdicts for having different views from that of the government," he added. Stepping up its 'patriotic education' campaign, recently the Chinese government has issued diktat to Tibetan officials to call back their children studying in Tibetan schools in exile and threatened to expel them their jobs and punish for failure to comply. Under government's plans on sweeping purge in Tibetan monasteries, senior monks and reincarnate lamas will be subjected to "patriotic education" and failing to carry out the orders will be "stripped of their post and imprisoned". Monks, who refuse to change their thinking in line with official demands, will be expelled and jailed. "Religious activities will be halted" in those monasteries where a substantial percentage of monks involved in this year's peaceful protests - a figure ranging from ten to 30 per cent. TCHRD has strongly appealed to the Chinese government to put an "immediate end to the suppressions of fundamental human rights in Tibet". The Chinese government must carry out swift improvement on the critical and deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet, the group said. In its new report released Tuesday, the US-based International Campaign for Tibet reported on 'disappearance' and detention of hundreds of Tibetans, including monks, nuns and schoolchildren, who are treated with extreme brutality in custody. "Unarmed peaceful protestors who have been shot dead, and names of those who have died following torture in prison or as a result of suicide due to despair over the crackdown or being made to denounce His Holiness the Dalai Lama," the report said. The report said an overwhelming majority of protests across the Tibetan plateau were "non-violent" and Tibetans have risked their lives to demonstrate support for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. --Editing by Lobsang CHOEDAK

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