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Dabbing her eyes with a cloth and clutching a photograph of her son to her chest, Sonam Dekyi, the mother of Tibetan political prisoner Ngawang Choephel, gave an impassioned plea to Harvard students last night to put pressure on the Chinese government to free...
Holding signs that said, "Free Ngawang Choephel" and holding candles in Au Bon Pain cups, the demonstrators were herded off Holyoke Center property and onto the sidewalk by HUPD Sergeant Jim L. McCarthy, who was called in by Holyoke Center officials...
Tapontsang is a Tibetan woman who was imprisoned for resisting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Her speech, translated by Divinity School students Ngawang Jorden, was made in pointed opposition to the upcoming visit to Harvard by Jiang Zemin, China's president...
...egos that we wish to have your coverage. It is rather that we fear for the fate of Tibet; we worry for the safety of Ngawang Choephel, missing since the summer, but recently seen in Nyari prison by a fellow prisoner who had been repeatedly beaten and tortured. We fear for the six-year-old Panchen Lama (probably the world's youngest political prisoner) and his family, who all "disappeared" over a month...
...name was Jetsun Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso, and when he was only four years old, he became the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1950 the Chinese Communists began their invasion of Tibet, and the 15-year-old ruler fled Lhasa. Eventually the Communists persuaded him to return. Since then the young Dalai Lama and his junior, the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important Incarnation, have lived like highly prized dolls in the hands of Tibet's Communist masters, powerless, yet indispensable because of the religious fealty they command. Last week the Dalai Lama was being feted...