Tibetan hunger strikers' health deteriorate, remain committed to carry-on fast

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Members of China Democracy Party at the indefinite fast venue in front of the UN Headquarters to show their solidarity with the hunger strikers on February 28, 2012.
Phayul[Wednesday, February 29, 2012 09:26]

DHARAMSHALA, February 29: Signs of physical deterioration have now started showing on the three hunger strikers who are now into the second week of their indefinite fast outside the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile and organisers of the indefinite fast told Phayul that the body movements of the three Tibetans have “relatively slowed down” and their voices have become strained with the freezing New York wind and rain.

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The three Tibetans began their indefinite fast on February 22, coinciding with the first day of Losar – Tibetan new year.

The three are directly appealing the UN to immediately send a fact-finding delegation to Tibet, put pressure on China – to stop the undeclared martial law in Tibet, to allow international media, to release all political prisoners including Gedun Choekyi Nyima and Tulku Tenzin Delek, and to stop “patriotic re-education” campaigns in Tibet.

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