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China puts Tibetan language advocate on trial
BEIJING: A Tibetan who has waged a campaign to preserve his region?s ancestral language was put on trial in China for inciting separatism on Thursday in a case Amnesty International denounced as "ludicrously unjust".
Tashi Wangchuk was featured in a New York Times documentary that followed him on a trip to Beijing, where he attempted to get Chinese state media and courts to address what he describes as diminishing use of the Tibetan language. Wangchuk was put on trial at the Intermediate People?s Court in Yushu, his hometown in a Tibetan area of northwestern China?s Qinghai province. The charge can carry a sentence of up to five years, but Wangchuk?s lawyer Liang Xiaojun said prosecutors were expected to seek even more jail time. Wangchuk pleaded not guilty, and the trial did not come to a verdict on Thursday. But nearly every case that goes to trial in China -- especially on sensitive state-security issues -- ends with a guilty verdict. "He doesn?t believe he?s incited separatism. He only wants to strengthen Tibetan language education," Liang said. Wangchuk has been detained in Yushu since January 2016, not long after the New York Times published its story and documentary video about his activism, according to the Times. Liang said the short documentary was "the most important evidence" used by the prosecution.In the video, Wangchuk complained of a "systematic slaughter of our culture". "In politics, it?s said that if one nation wants to eliminate another nation, first they need to eliminate their spoken and written language," he said. In the Times? stories Wangchuk notably says he wants to use Chinese law to build his case, and praised President Xi Jinping. أكثر... ??????? ??????: China puts Tibetan language advocate on trial || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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