Tashi Wangchuk (activist)

Tashi Wangchuk (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug ) born in 1985 in Kyegudo, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the former Tibetan province of Amdo the current province of Qinghai, is a Tibetan activist defending the teaching of the Tibetan language after he appeared in a New York Times video in 2015.[1] He was sentenced on 22 May 2018 in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu to five years prison for "incitement to separatism".[2] According to Amnesty International, "Tashi’s treatment exposes the ruthless lengths to which the Chinese authorities will go to silence those who ask the government to stop cultural assimilation."[3]

References

Edward Wong, China to Try Tibetan Education Advocate Detained for 2 Years, New York Times, 30 december 2017
"A Tibetan Tried to Save His Language. China Handed Him 5 Years in Prison". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
"China: Tibetan activist handed grotesquely unjust 5 year prison sentence after featuring in New York Times video". Amnesty International. Retrieved 2018-05-28.

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[1] Edward Wong, China to Try Tibetan Education Advocate Detained for 2 Years, New York Times, 30 december 2017

[nytimes-2] "A Tibetan Tried to Save His Language. China Handed Him 5 Years in Prison". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-28.

[amnesty-3] "China: Tibetan activist handed grotesquely unjust 5 year prison sentence after featuring in New York Times video". Amnesty International. Retrieved 2018-05-28.