The New York based human rights monitoring organization Human Rights Watch has asked the authorities in China’s Sichuan Province to allow independent medical professionals and human rights monitors to visit five Tibetans detained without trial for six months.
In a press statement dated March 30, 2006, Human Rights Watch said these Tibetans have been detained in August 2005 after the incident of a burning of a slaughterhouse allegedly by some Tibetans. However, the statement said these Tibetans “have been held without any charges against them made public and reportedly without access to relatives or defense counsel.”
“It’s time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.”
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