China report: 76 sentenced so far for Tibet riots

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — China has sentenced 76 people and detained more than 950 since last year's deadly anti-government riots in Tibet, state media said Wednesday.

The government has released few details of the aftermath of the March 14 violence, the largest uprising against Chinese rule in nearly 50 years. Beijing says 22 people died, but Tibetan supporters say many times that number were killed in the protests and subsequent military crackdown.

The report by the official Xinhua News Agency attributed the latest figures to Nyima Tsering, a Tibetan Communist Party official, but did not elaborate on what the sentences were, what charges they faced, or what happened to those detained.

The figures, however, indicate the legal process is ongoing. Authorities said in November that 55 people had been sentenced.



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[xchrom]

1. main street beijing -- by way of tibet. nt

[DrCory]

2. Sentenced...

By the same sort of "judges" recently praised in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3733370