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“Criminalisation of Self-immolations”

August 4, 2014;

The International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group based in the US, has released a special report entitled “Acts of significant evil: The criminalisation of Tibetan self-immolations”. It urges the Chinese government to “release all Tibetans who have been detained and sentenced on grounds of ‘incitement to’ or ‘aiding self-immolations'”. The report continues, “Since 2012, at least 11 Tibetans have been sentenced to prison or even to death” on these grounds.

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