Mon, Jun 04, 2012 - Page 1 News List

MAC urges China to face Tiananmen

INDIFFERENCE:DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang said Taiwanese should not only seek economic exchanges with China, but should pay attention to its lack of freedoms

By Chen Hui-ping and Loa Iok-sin  /  Staff reporters

On the eve of the Tiananmen anniversary, “as many as 600 Tibetans in Lhasa have been arrested, which is the largest-scale arrest made in the city since the Cultural Revolution,” the statement said, urging the Chinese government to withdraw troops from Tibet, stop illegal arrests, torture and religious persecution.

Additional reporting by Chris Wang and AFP

Translation by Jake Chung, staff writer

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