{"id":12152,"date":"2018-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/denials-smokescreens-and-misleading-information-chinese-government-attempts-to-distort-its-record-on-tibet-at-un-committee-hearing-on-13-august-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:00:00","slug":"denials-smokescreens-and-misleading-information-chinese-government-attempts-to-distort-its-record-on-tibet-at-un-committee-hearing-on-13-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/denials-smokescreens-and-misleading-information-chinese-government-attempts-to-distort-its-record-on-tibet-at-un-committee-hearing-on-13-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Denials, smokescreens and misleading information: Chinese government attempts to distort its record on Tibet at UN committee hearing on 13 August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-7738\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chinese-delegate-CERD-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"China CERD Tibet human rights\" class=\"wp-image-7738\"\/><figcaption>The Chinese delegation giving their response to CERD experts at the UN in Geneva.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GENEVA \u2014 Today at the United Nations Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination, the Chinese government flatly denied its human rights violations in Tibet and other areas of the People\u2019s Republic of China, instead painting a rosy picture of personal freedoms that left the body of independent human rights experts in disbelief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo state, as the Chinese delegation did today, that it \u2018has taken good care of Tibetan culture and religion\u2019 when more than 150 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2009 is beyond ignorant,\u201d Kai Mueller, Head of UN Advocacy for the International Campaign for Tibet, said at the conclusion of the hearing in Geneva, which began with questions from the experts on Friday, Aug. 10 and ended today with responses by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Chinese delegation gave many false and misleading answers to pressing questions about the situation of Tibetans and Uyghurs,\u201d another persecuted group in China, Mueller added. \u201cLegitimate grievances were flatly labeled as criminal, separatist or even terrorist. Tibetan language advocate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/tibetan-language-rights-advocate-tashi-wangchuk-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tashi Wangchuk, who was sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment for peacefully advocating Tibetan language rights<\/a>, was called \u2018splittist\u2019 and his actions \u2018criminal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When referring to Wangchuk\u2019s case, the Chinese delegation admitted that he had been able to meet his lawyers only twice during 28 months in detention before he received his sentence in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several times during today\u2019s hearing, Chinese delegation members invited UN representatives to visit Tibet, but in reality, UN experts, diplomats, parliamentarians, journalists and independent experts are systematically denied access to Tibet and other restricted areas, except on strictly controlled propaganda tours led by the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee had raised a number of issues with the Chinese delegation, such as the protection of the Tibetan language, the rights of Tibetan nomads and herders and the status of religious freedom in Tibet, as well as the cases of Wangchuk and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/body-of-revered-tibetan-lama-tenzin-delek-rinpoche-cremated-in-remote-high-security-prison-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who died in Chinese custody in 2015 and whose death has not been independently investigated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee repeatedly demanded impartial investigations into cases of torture, ill-treatment and deaths in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disbelief toward the answers of the Chinese government led one committee member to ask at the end of the hearing whether the Chinese delegation \u201chas not come here all the way from China to tell us everything is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee is expected to publish concluding observations on its review of China by the end of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/international-campaign-for-tibets-oral-statement-at-the-un-cerd-96th-session-in-geneva-on-august-7-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read ICT\u2019s statement to the committee challenging China\u2019s record on Tibet.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 August at the United Nations Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination, the Chinese government flatly denied its human rights violations in Tibet and other areas of the People\u2019s Republic of China, instead painting a rosy picture of personal freedoms that left the body of independent human rights experts in disbelief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12153,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[666],"news_tag":[672],"class_list":["post-12152","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-newsinternational-political-news","news_tag-united-nations-and-tibet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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