{"id":48173,"date":"2015-07-15T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=48173 "},"modified":"2015-07-15T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:44:00","slug":"48173-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=48173","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Outraged Over Death of Tibetan Dissident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/28\/2015715253ED8E8-2FB1-4ECD-86CA-E1D9097090D7_w640_s(1).jpg\" alt=\"2015715253ED8E8-2FB1-4ECD-86CA-E1D9097090D7_w640_s(1).jpg (640&#215;420)\" \/><\/div>\n<div>FILE &#8211; Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/english.share.voanews.eu\/flashembed.aspx?t=vid&amp;id=2863347&amp;w=640&amp;h=363&amp;skin=embeded\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Last updated on: July 15, 2015 5:48 PM<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WASHINGTON&#8212;Members of the U.S. Congress have expressed outrage over the death of a prominent Tibetan dissident in a Chinese prison, and urged Beijing to stop abusive policies in Tibet.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lawmakers observed a moment of silence for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche as they started a hearing Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Congressman James McGovern (D-MA) who chaired the hearing said he had asked the State Department to press the Chinese government to grant Tenzin Delek medical parole back in April. &#8220;Yet here we are, with another Tibetan leader dead,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hollywood movie actor Richard Gere, a longstanding vocal advocate on Tibetan freedom, said Tenzin Delek&#8217;s death is a &#8220;stark reminder of who we are dealing with here.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Testifying before the Congressional hearing, Gere said what the Chinese government was afraid of is the power base Tenzin Delek was building.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He had tens of thousands of students, Tibetan and Chinese, and I think basically that was the problem,&#8221; Gere said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Tenzin Delek&#8217;s family was informed by the local authorities of his death on Sunday, according to the Students for a Free Tibet, a New York based human rights group. He was 13 years into a prison sentence his supporters say was politically motivated.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The U.S. State Department, which had repeatedly called for Tenzin Delek&#8217;s release, on Monday urged Beijing to &#8220;investigate and make public the circumstances surrounding his death.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/us-congress-outraged-over-death-of-tibetan-dissident\/2862248.html\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For detail please visit here<\/div>\n<\/a>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Congressman James McGovern (D-MA) who chaired the hearing said he had asked the State Department to press the Chinese government to grant Tenzin Delek medical parole back in April. &amp;#8220;Yet here we are, with another Tibetan leader dead,&amp;#8221; he said.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}