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Tibetan nun burns herself to death in China: reports
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Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2015


Parents in last minute plea for release of China feminists
Beijing (AFP) April 12, 2015 - The parents of five Chinese feminists detained for more than a month have issued an eleventh-hour plea to authorities for their release, as a lawyer for the activists said prosecutors have until Monday to charge them.

The young women face being charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", which could see them jailed for up to five years after they were detained by police in early March.

The vague charge of "provoking trouble" has been increasingly used by Chinese police under President Xi Jinping to detain and jail protestors for holding small-scale demonstrations.

The five women -- Li Tingting, 25, Wei Tingting, 26, Wang Man, 32, Zheng Churan, 25, and Wu Rongrong, 30 -- had in recent years been linked to several stunts aiming to highlight issues such as domestic violence and the poor provision of women's toilets.

They were taken into custody a day ahead of International Women's Day on March 8 as they were preparing to hand out leaflets about sexual harassment.

The activists are "young, kind-hearted, and full of a sense of responsibility to society," ten of their parents and spouses wrote in a letter to Beijing prosecutors that was posted online Saturday.

"These five girls, who we care for and love deeply, have not made a mistake, let alone committed a crime," they added.

Their detention has prompted renewed condemnation of China's tight controls on political activists from human rights groups as well as the US.

Police interrogations of the women -- several of whom suffer from chronic health problems such as asthma and an unspecified heart condition -- have focused on a 2012 stunt named "Occupy Men's Rooms", one of their lawyers, Liang Xiaojun, told AFP on Sunday.

Prosecutors have until Monday to formally approve their arrest, or police will be obliged to release the women, he added.

The parents said in their letter that the women "have been detained for over a month and we have not had a decent explanation".

"Please restore their freedom and dignity as soon as possible!," they added.

A Tibetan nun is believed to have died after setting herself on fire to protest China's rule over the Himalayan region and to voice support for the Dalai Lama, rights groups and media said.

Yeshi Khando walked around the Kardze Monastery in a type of prayer that is common in Tibetan Buddhism, and then set herself alight on Wednesday near the Ganzi county police station, the British-based Free Tibet group, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) said.

The 47-year-old nun "called for the return of the Dalai Lama and also for his long life," RFA reported, citing anonymous sources and referring to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.

"She also called for the freedom for Tibet."

RFA said that those present do not believe Khando survived.

Her body was quickly removed by security forces and her family was summoned by the police on Thursday, Free Tibet said.

This week, Tibet's Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo ordered Tibetan monasteries to display Chinese flags and to vow to assess Buddhist monks and nuns for their "patriotism".

It is not clear on what grounds the assessments would be made. China often uses terms such as "patriotic" and "harmonious" to mean allegiance to political authorities.

There have been more than 130 cases of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in China since 2009, most of them fatal, both the ICT and RFA said.

Self-immolations peaked in the run-up to the ruling Communist Party's pivotal five-yearly congress in November 2012, and have become less common since.

Many Tibetans in China accuse the government of religious repression and eroding their culture, as the country's majority Han ethnic group increasingly moves into historically Tibetan areas.

Beijing condemns the acts and blames them on the Dalai Lama, saying he uses them to further a separatist agenda.

The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace laureate who has lived in India since 1959 after a failed uprising in Tibet, has described the self-immolations as acts of desperation that he is powerless to stop.


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