16. Nov 2009
Document details executed Tibetan's sentence
(RFA) Court documents relating to one of three Tibetans executed by Chinese authorities for their part in the Lhasa unrest of March 2008 have positively confirmed the identity of one of the men, according to RFA. The documents confirm that the Lhasa municipal People's Intermediate Court handed down the death sentence and the "revocation of his life-long political rights" to Lobsang Gyaltsen "for committing arson". The Lhasa municipal procuratorate, or government prosecution service, accused Lobsang Gyaltsen of "actively participating in assault, smashing, looting, and burning" in the Ramoche street area of Lhasa on 14 March 2008. "During the afternoon of that day, Lobsang Gyaltsen set fire to the Hongyu Kuye Garment on Qingnian Lu with the help of fellow accused Pen Kyi", the court judgment said. "The victim Zhao Rancun was a Han Chinese national, 45 years old, who died due to burns2, the judgment said.