A man at the center of a story related to China’s tough one-child policy is in custody.
HONG KONG—Authorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained an ethnic Uyghur man for speaking to foreign media after international attention helped his daughter avoid a forced abortion under China’s population control policy.

Tursunjan Hesen, 67, was detained July 2, according to Juret, chief in Nogaytu village, Dadamtu town, in Ghulja city.

“I don’t know why he was arrested or where he is. You can ask higher officials more about the case,” Juret said in an interview.

I wrote it in response to His Holiness’s public statement about retiring and about seeking new ways to select a future incarnation of the Dalai Lama. I am posting it again here since the piece is related to the two previous essays and discussions we have had on the democratization of Tibetan society. I also intend to write a follow-up piece, to explore this complex but very important issue further. All comments, no matter how weird, critical or hostile, are genuinely welcome as important contributions to our national debate.

A Chinese student runs into trouble when he refuses to renounce Christianity.
HONG KONG—A high-school student who refused to renounce Christianity has been expelled from a Han Chinese military production corps school in the remote northwestern region of Xinjiang, an overseas rights group said.

Second-year high-school student Chen Le said he was expelled by the Huashan Middle School in the 2nd Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on Oct. 20, the U.S.-based China Aid group said in a statement.

Mr. Yusoph Shohret, a Uyghur scholar now resident in Australia, has disclosed details of an alleged massacre that happened in Urumqi in July.
An entire Uyghur community disappeared that night.
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Shohret introduced himself as a teacher who used to work at Xinjiang University in Urumqi, and now still has many relatives and friends in Urumqi.

According to Shohret, a massacre took place in complete darkness on the night of July 5. "The Horserace Track community disappeared. Many were killed, some fled."

La signora Zheng Yuling è stata arrestata durante la notte del 6 agosto 2009 mentre esponeva uno striscione che denunciava la persecuzione nei confronti del Falun Gong nel quartiere residenziale del dipartimento di polizia di Chibi. È stata condannata a un anno di lavoro forzato e portata il 25 agosto al campo di lavoro femminile della provincia di Hubei, che si trova al 1-Mahu Community, distretto di Hongshan, città di Wuhan.

Human Rights in China (HRIC) learned that on October 23, 2009, Duan Chunfang , a Shanghai petitioner and Charter ’08 signer, was sentenced by a Shanghai court to one year and six months in prison for “obstructing official business.” Duan’s family members said that this is an unjust ruling and that they plan to appeal. Duan has been petitioning the authorities for redress for the 2007 death of her brother, Duan Huimin , while he was serving a Reeducation-Through-Labor (RTL) sentence.

SHANXI--The skies were clear when Shan Yongchang, the Linfen-Fushan church member who was arrested for text-messaging about the 9/13 incident, was released on Friday, October 9. The next day, PSB officials offered to release ten Linfen-Fushan Church leaders from their detention, under the condition of holding Pastor Yang Rongli until further notice. Protesting her continued detention in an act of solidarity, the church leaders refused to leave without Pastor Yang. "We are one team in the one body of Christ! We won't leave her behind alone. We will not leave prison without her."

Exiled Tibetans, local Indians and foreign visitors held a candlelight vigil in Dharamsala, India, last night, in response to the Chinese government's execution of four Tibetan prisoners near Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on Tuesday.
The vigil was organised by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the Tibetan Women's Association, Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet, the National Democratic Party of Tibet and Students for a Free Tibet, who issued a joint statement calling the executions "an affront to international judicial standards" which was "clearly politically motivated."

NEW YORK – The man in charge of forced labor camps in China's Guangdong province was served yesterday with a lawsuit while visiting Manhattan. The complaint, filed on behalf of two female refugees now residing in Queens and other victims still in China, urges that the camp system superintendent be held liable for torture, illegal deprivation of liberty, and other severe human rights violations carried out in Guangdong labor camps that he has overseen since 2000.

Exile groups report the deaths of four Tibetans linked to last year's riots
Chinese authorities have carried out their first executions of Tibetans in connection with the deadly riots that swept Lhasa last year, according to exile groups.
As the first reported judicial killings in the region for six years, the news has prompted overseas protests and concerns that proper legal procedures were not followed.

Sono ben quattro i tibetani trucidati martedì dalle autorità comuniste e posso ora confermarvi anche l’identità di almeno tre di loro : Lobsang Gyaltsen, Loyak e Penkyi.
La notte scorsa le truppe di occupazione hanno compiuto rastrellamenti alla periferia di Lhasa e perquisito molte abitazioni nel centro della Città.
Decine gli arresti.

Mila
Corrispondente di Dossier Tibet dai Territori Occupati

Mi hanno riferito che ieri mattina verso le 11 (ora locale ) sono stati fucilati tre giovani tibetani.
I loro nomi dovrebbero essere : Lobsang Tenzin ,originario di Lhasa,una ragazza originaria della Contea di Nyenmo ed un giovane chiamato Amdo Ngaba
Tutti e tre avevano partecipato all’insurrezione del Marzo 2008.
Appena possibile vi fornirò maggiori dettagli

Mila
Corrispondente di Dossier Tibet dai Territori Occupati

Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained in the wake of the riots in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group has said.
Human Rights Watch said the 43 men and teenaged boys were taken in police sweeps of Uighur districts of Urumqi, and had since vanished without a trace.
"The cases we documented are likely just the tip of the iceberg," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
The rights group is calling for the Chinese government to give details of everyone it is holding in detention.

Batzangaa, a Southern (Inner) Mongolian exile and the Principal of the Ordos Mongol-Tibetan Medical School, was arrested at the front entrance of the United Nations Refugee Agency office building in Ulaanbaatar, capital of the independent country of Mongolia on October 3, 2009 while seeking United Nations political refugee status. Four Chinese policemen sent from China accompanied by more than 10 Mongolian policemen carried out the arrest. Batzangaa’s wife Ms.Bayanhuaar and their 9-year old daughter were also arrested in Ulaanbaatar.