Tibet: Sentenced for Refusing to Fly Chinese Flag, Man Dies in Prison

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Source: UNPO / Radio Free Asia

A Tibetan man has died from injuries sustained under torture by Chinese authorities while serving a 13-year prison sentence for refusing to fly a Chinese flag, sources tell RFA [Radio Free Asia]’s Tibetan service.

The body of the man known as Trigyal was recently turned over to family members, said Driru Samdrub, a Tibetan resident living in Europe with close contacts in the region.

“He died due to severe torture under Chinese detention,” Samdrub said.

Trigyal was one of three men from Mukhyim village in Tibet’s restive Driru (in Chinese, Biru) county who received stiff sentences for refusing to fly the Chinese national flag in 2014. County residents were being required to fly the flag from their houses in a government campaign to force them to show loyalty to Beijing. Some of the more than 1,000 residents protesting the order threw the flags in a nearby river. While Trigyal was given a 13-year sentence in 2014, the two other men, Ngangdrak and Rigsal, were handed 10-year terms, sources told RFA in earlier reports.

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[Herman4747]

1. Extremely Tragic. Unconscionable. Wicked.

I had erroneously thought that the Chinese government was nowadays better than this.

[SpankMe]

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Republicans have said that if they win the Whitehouse and keep both the Senate and the House, they'll try to pass laws - and even get the ball rolling on a constitutional amendment - that would ban the desecration of the American flag. Again.

Such laws have always been struck down on first amendment grounds. And, a constitutional amendment is a long shot at best.

But, just like they're whittling away at abortion, they'll start pushing this flag issue by millimeters and inches every year until they can wedge in some form of criminalization of flag desecration that passes legal muster.

They want to enforce respect for the flag at the point of a gun - both Republicans and the Chinese police.

Of course, I think that burning a US flag is demented and useless because one is desecrating the very symbol that represents their free speech right to desecrate that symbol. But, as offensive as it is to many, no real harm is done by doing it.

[SoapBox]

3. You were reading my mind.

Allow a total take over by the likes of the PukeBaggers, Rump, Nugent/NRA types and...

For those that would laugh that nothing as such could happen here...never, EVER, say never.

Get the fuck out and VOTE!