World Tibet Network News Sunday, February 01, 1998

The complete report on website

http://www.Tibet.com/Humanrights/HumanRights97/index.html

China in Tibet - Striking Hard Against Human Rights

1997 Annual Report

Human Rights Violations In Tibet

Tibetan Centre For Human Rights And Democracy - Dharamsala

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

Executive Summary

Recommendation

Religious Persecution through "Patriotic Re-education"

International Law

China's "Strike Hard" Campaign in Tibet

Work Teams in Monasteries/Nunneries in Tibet

Closure of Monasteries

Arrests of Monks and Nuns

Expulsion5 from Monasteries and Nunneries

Monks on Probation in Monasteries

Deaths

Voluntary Depopulation

Ban on Photographs of the Dalai Lama

The Panchen Lama Issue

Curtailment of Freedom of Expression

International Law

Cases of Violation of Freedom, of Expression and Opinion

Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience

New Political Prisoners Placed in Detention in 1997

Cases of Long Serving Political Prisoners still in Detention

Known Tibetan Political Prisoners Serving Sentences of 10 years and Above

Arbitrary Arrests and Detentions

International Law

Arrested for the Exercise of Rights

Denial of the Right to Fair Trial

Denial of the Right to Appeal

Torture in Detention Centres and Labour Camps

International Law

Torture Resulting in Death

Torture and Ill-treatment of Prisoners

Disappearance

International Law

Cases of Disappearance

Racial Discrimination

international Law

public Representation

Employment

Education

Health

Women and Forced Birth Control

international Law

Torture and Ill-treatment of Women prisoners

Cases of New Arrests

Birth Control policy

Inhumane Treatment of the Child

international Law

Child political prisoners

Education in Tibet

Torture of Children

Child refugees

Population Transfer

International Law

Increasing Migration

Human Rights Implication

Violations of Subsistence Rights under the New Taxation policy

International Law

China's Taxation policy in Tibet

Cases of Taxation in Tibet

Increase in Beggar population