The following statement was issued by three parliamentarians who visited Tibet last September. The parliamentarians are Lord David Alton, Lord David Steele and Derek Wyatt MP.

We deeply regret  China ’s recent executions of Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak.  During our visit to Tibet in September of this year, we raised our strong concerns regarding the lack of due process in these cases with the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing , and with local officials in Tibet .  Their trials took place with no independent observers, journalists or monitors present, and there is therefore no way of knowing whether they received a fair trial in accordance in with international treaty obligations and Chinese law.  We later raised these and other cases with the Chinese Embassy, and with visiting officials in London .  We appealed for clemency in these specific cases, that they might be spared the death penalty, and we are dismayed these pleas have fallen upon deaf ears.

Unconfirmed reports from  Tibet continue to circulate that two others, one named Penkyi, may also have been executed. We call upon the Chinese authorities immediately, therefore, to clarify whether any other person has been executed in connection to events in  Lhasa in March 2008. We further request a clarification as to the whereabouts and legal status of Penkyi from Sagkya county, Tenzin Phuntsog and Kangtsuk, each of whom were sentenced to death in April with a two year reprieve following trials that were closely related to those of Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak.

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