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2016. június 23./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Monlam

DHARMASHALA, June 23: The US Representative to the UN Human Rights Council Ambassador Keith Harper along with the European Union (EU) and few European countries yesterday criticized the Chinese government for failure to meet the international human rights standard at the 32nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Speaking on ‘Human Rights Situations Requiring Council Attention’, the Ambassador said, “We are deeply concerned that China’s new Law on the Management of Foreign NGO Activities will further narrow space for civil society and about excessive government controls on religious practices, especially those affecting Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and Christians.”

The EU also raised similar alert regarding the ongoing harassment of human rights lawyers and activists in China. “The recent adoption of the national security packages including the counter terrorist law further raises serious question about China’s respect to international human rights obligation.”

The EU also urged China to respect the freedom of religion and culture, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang regions.

Germany, Switzerland and France have joined the call for protection of human rights in China, especially in the restive regions of Tibet, Uyghur and Xinjiang region, urging China to assure fundamental rights to the ethnic minorities, rights to exercise freedom of religion and movement.

International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), at a side event organized by Society for Threatened Peoples at the ongoing Human Right Council session, said that Chinese ‘security architecture’ in Tibet creates neither peace nor stability.

Last week Mélanie Blondelle, Policy and Advocacy Officer at ICT, in her address to the council on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, said that repression in Tibet, including ‘counter-terror’ and ‘stability maintenance’ measures, have created more dangerous political environment for Tibetans in expressing their views. “As a result, a new generation of Tibetans are paying a high price for exercising their right to freedom of expression, in a political climate in which almost any expression of Tibetan identity or culture, no matter how mild, can be characterized by the authorities as ‘splittist’ and therefore ‘criminal’” she read.