The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Chinese public security officials to release two Tibetan journalists imprisoned last month, or charge them with an offense. Above, a screengrab from a Tibetan language website maintained by one of the jailed Tibetans. Snip:
The public security bureau in Gannan, an area in the south of Gansu designated a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, arrested Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang on February 26, according to overseas Tibetan rights groups. Kunchok Tsephel, an online writer, runs the Tibetan cultural issues Web site Chomei, according to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
Kate Saunders, UK communications director for the International Campaign for Tibet, told CPJ by telephone from New Delhi that she learned of Kunchok Tsephel's arrest from two sources. She has spent the past two weeks in Dharamsala and Kathmandu.
In an unrelated case, officials from the same bureau rearrested formerly imprisoned filmmaker Jigme Gyatso, according to the Tibetan Center and Saunders. The exact date of the arrest is not clear, but it is believed to have occurred around March 10, the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising.
Jigme Gyatso, a Buddhist monk, had been held from March to October 2008 before being freed on probation, Saunders said.
Two Tibetans arrested amid ongoing media restrictions (CPJ)
