London, February 28, 1995. Britain was urged yesterday to campaign for human rights in Tibet by a monk who described 30 years of torture at the hands of the Chinese. Palden Gyatso, 64, told how he was beaten as a political prisoner following China's invasion in 1959. The Buddhist monk fled Tibet after his release and passed details of atrocities to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights last week. In his first press interview in the West, the monk called on the international community to help liberate Tibet. Describing torture sessions, he said an electric baton was rammed down his throat, he was hung from a ceiling and a fire lit beneath him, and beaten with nail-studded length of wood. In one prison, hunger drove him to eat his own boots. At a Westminster news conference with Lord Weatherill, the former Speaker and patron of the all-party Group for Tibet, Palden Gyatso displayed instruments used to torture him, and said he feared the repression was getting worse. "Some of the things that happened w

ere unbelievable", he said. "When a prisoner was executed, the family was sent an an invoice for the bullets used, any rope and other costs incurred during the execution. Where else in the world could such a system exist?"