• tchrdna@gmail.com
  • +1 (510) 309-6470
Tibetan center for human rights and democracy
  • Donate
    $
    Select Payment Method
    Personal Info

    Donation Total: $10

  • Menu Canvas
    • Home
    • About Us
      • History
      • Board Of Directors
      • Staff
    • News
    • Get involved
      • Intern
      • Volunteer
    • Reports
      • Annual Reports
      • Thematic Reports
      • Human Rights Update
    • Self immolation factsheet
    • Contact Us
  • DONATE NOW
    $
    Select Payment Method
    Personal Info

    Donation Total: $10

Tibetan center for human rights and democracy
Email
tchrdna@gmail.com
Call Now
+0 000 00000
  • Home
  • About Us
    • History
    • Board Of Directors
    • Staff
  • News
  • Get involved
    • Intern
    • Volunteer
  • Reports
    • Annual Reports
    • Thematic Reports
    • Human Rights Update
  • Self immolation factsheet
  • Contact Us
  • Notification

What Human Rights? Not even the Right to Bathe in Tibet!

Homepage News What Human Rights? Not even the Right to Bathe in Tibet!
News

What Human Rights? Not even the Right to Bathe in Tibet!

March 13, 2014
By admin
0 Comment
140 Views

khenpo_kartseIn the movie 12 Years a Slave, which recently won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the cruelty and inhumanity of slavery was encapsulated in one memorable scene when a slave returns to the cotton plantation with a bar of soap. The slave makes a demand for the simple right to be clean and is severely whipped and beaten for doing so.

Today in Tibet monks, nuns, and family members of Khenpo Kartse, also known as Khenpo Karma Tsewang, are refusing to bathe as a gesture of solidarity. Khenpo Kartse was arrested from his hotel room in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, at 1 am on 7 December 2013. For over three months prison officials have refused to allow Khenpo Kartse to bathe.

At the best of times, going three months without bathing is merely revolting and unhygienic. For Khenpo Kartse it is cruel, dehumanizing and degrading. When Khenpo Kartse was arrested he suffered from among other things bronchitis and tuberculosis. Both of these diseases have been exacerbated by the denial of medical care, starvation diet, and Khenpo Kartse’s freezing detention cell. Khenpo Kartse’s lung diseases have advanced to the stage that his body is now expelling bloody sputum, a mixture of saliva and mucus.

Khenpo Kartse is currently being held in the Chamdo Public Security Bureau Detention Centre on vague charges. He was a respected member of his community because of his social work and the promotion and protection of Tibetan language, culture and religion. He deserves to be freed, to be informed with specificity why he was detained, and to be treated with dignity. At the most basic level Khenpo Kartse simply needs a bath.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy requests individuals and groups to call the Chamdo Public Security Bureau Detention Centre (ph: (+011 86  0895-4821803) and urge them to give Khenpo Kartse a bath.

You can say this in Chinese: 让堪布尕玛才旺洗澡![rang kanbu gamacaiwang xizao!]

And Tibetan: མཁན་པོ་ཀརྨ་ཚེ་དབང་ལ་ཁྲུས་རྒྱག་འཇུག་རོགས

 

Tags: 12 years a slave chamdo china khenpo kartse right to bathe

Previous Story
TCHRD calls on China to respect lawful rights of detained senior monk
Next Story
Cao Shunli’s death a huge blow to human rights movement in China

Related Articles

Commemorating the 37th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture

On the 37th anniversary of the entry into force of...

TCHRD Statement on World Press Freedom Day 2024

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy joins the...

The sidebar (sidebar-1) you added has no widgets. Please add some from the Widgets Page

About Us

Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy – North America, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit founded and incorporated in October 2019 in the state of California. The Center is run by its Director and volunteers.

#

Contact Info

Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, P/O Box 7088 , Sab Pablo, CA-94806
Contact Us

tchrdna@gmail.com

Become Volunteer

tchrdna@gmail.com

Connect with Us

Copyright ©2020 Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy. All Rights Reserved
SearchPostsLoginCart
Wednesday, 9, Apr
New report calls for investigation into acts of crimes against humanity in Tibet’s Driru County
Wednesday, 9, Apr
2024 Annual Report on the Human Rights Situation in Tibet
Monday, 24, Feb
Chinese Authorities Extend Tsongon Tsering’s Prison Term for Defying Guilty Plea Pressure
Monday, 24, Feb
Dissenting Voices: The State of Expression in Tibet 
Monday, 24, Feb
China: Investigate the Untimely Death of Tibetan Village Leader and Disclose the Whereabouts of 20 Detainees
Monday, 24, Feb
TCHRD condemns China’s internationalization of repression and sanctions imposed on Tibetan human rights group

Welcome back,