Another Tibetan has died from injuries from his detention in a prison merely three months after he was released. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison for reporting about protests in his native region. He died on February 6. hrw.org/news/2021/02/1…
Kunchok Jinpa’s death is yet another grim case of a wrongfully imprisoned Tibetan dying from mistreatment. Chinese authorities responsible for arbitrary detention, torture or ill-treatment, and the death of people in their custody should be held accountable,” said @SophieHRW.
New information indicates that the authorities detained Kunchok Jinpa on November 8, 2013, providing his family no information on his whereabouts, and later convicted him of leaking state secrets for passing information to foreign media about...
... local environmental and other protests in his region.

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17 Feb
Taiwan's health minister revealed in a radio interview today that #Taiwan's plan to sign the contract to buy 5 million doses of #COVID19 vaccines from Germany's BioNTech has been halted by #Beijing. cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
Dr. Chen said #Taiwan was ready to sign the contract with BioNTech's agent in Shanghai late last year, but on the eve of signing the contract, the company in Shanghai suddenly decided to halt the plan. The surprise has interrupted #Taiwan's #COVID19 vaccine rollout.
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Calls for the @iocmedia to move the 2022 Winter Olympic out of #Beijing continue to grow, as the conservative political leader in Canada said on Tuesday that it's not appropriate for #China to host the game in light of its human rights record. in.news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-rel…
"What more evidence does your government need to see before it concludes whether or not a genocide is occurring in China. And given we're even discussing the possibility of a genocide, is Beijing an appropriate venue for the Olympics?" said O'Toole.
Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau said: "In regards to the Olympics, we continue to be very, very vocal in standing up for human rights around the world and calling out human rights abuses, as I have personally in the past directly with Chinese leadership, among many others.
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He said China was “not informed in advance of the political change in Myanmar” and that it hoped “all things go well in Myanmar, rather than becoming unstable or even falling into chaos.”
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For the second day in a row, four Chinese vessels reportedly entered the disputed water around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, which Japan views as its territory. One of the vessels that left the water is reportedly equipped with a cannon. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…
The officials say two Chinese ships entered waters off Taisho Island shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday. They say the other two have been inside Japanese waters since Monday at around noon.
The Japan Coast Guard says its patrol ships are surrounding the Japanese fishing boat, while warning the Chinese ships to leave the territorial waters.
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