10. Jun 2009
Tibetan crippled by police
(Tibet.net) Tibet.net reports that on 14 March 2008, a young man by the name of Phuntsok from Tashi Gang township, Meldrogungkar (Chin: Mozhugongka) county, in the Lhasa municipality, was arrested at his residence in the Karma Kunsang area, located in eastern Lhasa, apparently for no reason. "After the arrest, the PAP [People's Armed Police] beat him fiercely and then locked him - along with other Tibetan detainees - in the storeroom of the Lhasa railway station. He was released after having detained there for 20 days", according to a Tibet.net source. On returning home, the source said, and despite being given medical treatment his condition did not improve. "At the moment, his physical condition is very poor; he has to rely on walking sticks and cannot stand straight due to back injury that he sustained from severe beatings at the hands of the PAP".