{"id":184849,"date":"2015-07-14T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=184849"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:48:56","slug":"protesters-demand-return-of-deceased-tibetan-lamas-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/07\/protesters-demand-return-of-deceased-tibetan-lamas-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Protesters Demand Return of Lama&#8217;s Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/07\/tibetan-religious-leader-tenzin-delek-dies-in-prison\/\">death of Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche in prison<\/a> last weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/15\/world\/asia\/tenzin-delek-rinpoche-tibet-body.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0\"><strong>Tibetans in western Sichuan staged protests\u00a0and demanded that his body be returned to his family<\/strong><\/a>. The lama had since 2002 been serving a 20 year sentence for alleged involvement in a series of bombings in Chengdu, for which he has long proclaimed his innocence. The New York Times&#8217; Patrick Boehler reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The death of a Tibetan spiritual leader in a Chinese jail on Sunday led to a violent protest by Tibetans demanding the return of his body to his family, according to news reports and an advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"229\" data-total-count=\"706\">[&#8230;] The monk\u2019s family learned of <a title=\"Times article.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/14\/world\/asia\/tenzin-delek-rinpoche-tibetan-religious-leader-dies-in-chinese-custody.html\">his death<\/a> on Sunday. The next day, thousands gathered to mourn at a government office in Yajiang County in western Sichuan, according to a statement by Free Tibet, an advocacy group based in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"182\" data-total-count=\"888\">The police fired shots into the air, used tear gas and beat protesters to disperse the crowds, the group said, and at least 23 people were sent to a hospital for treatment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"129\" data-total-count=\"1017\">The protesters demanded that the Chinese authorities hand over the monk\u2019s body to the family for funeral rites, the group said. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/15\/world\/asia\/tenzin-delek-rinpoche-tibet-body.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"129\" data-total-count=\"1017\">The Times cites reports from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freetibet.org\/news-media\/pr\/update-tenzin-delek-rinpoche-%E2%80%93-security-forces-deployed-home-county-thousands-call\">advocacy group Free Tibet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/marchers-07132015172716.html\">Radio Free Asia<\/a>.\u00a0As the monk&#8217;s health had been ailing in recent years, his supporters had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tibetsociety.com\/content\/view\/469\">called for his release on medical parole<\/a>. A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2015\/07\/244853.htm\">statement from the U.S. State Department<\/a> refers to the monk as a &#8220;political prisoner,&#8221; urges authorities to return his body to family, and notes that they had consistently called on China to release him from jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"129\" data-total-count=\"1017\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche in prison last weekend, Tibetans in western Sichuan staged protests\u00a0and demanded that his body be returned to his family. 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