Eighth International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights 4-14 March 2010
Tribute to Dhondup Wangchen
Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan film director. Suspected of “illegal journalism” - an offence not mentioned in the Chinese penal code - he was arrested on 26 March 2008 following a period of general unrest in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Statement of Lhamo Tso
Wife of Dhondup Wangchen
Zurich, 6. January 2010. Dhondup Wangchen, the Tibetan filmmaker who is currently in Chinese detention, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by the provincial court in Xining (capital of Qinghai province). The sentencing took place on 28 December 2009 but his relatives in Xining were neither informed about the trial nor the verdict.
CHONGQING, China — A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad and distributed on the Internet and at film festivals around the world.
