Screen 'Leaving Fear Behind' |
Free Tibet is seeking your help in our campaign to get Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen released from prison. Host a screening of 'Leaving Fear Behind', charging a £2 entry fee, to help fundraise for our campaign work. You can even screen it in your own home.
To contact us about borrowing a copy, call on 02073244605(UK), write to us at 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT or e-mail at mail@freetibet.org
Let us know when you are intending to screen the film in advance so that we can arrange to get a copy to you.
Dhondup Wangchen and Jigme Gyatso were arrested following the completion of their documentary film ‘Leaving Fear Behind’ in March 2008. The film was shot inside Tibet and smuggled out at great risk.
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Update on Jigme Gyatso:
Jigme Gyatso was temporarily released from Kachu (in Chinese: Linxia) prison on October 15, 2008 and is now back in his monastery in Labrang Tashikyil. It is not clear, according to information from Tibet, if all charges against Jigme Gyatso have been dismissed. He was told by the authorities that he will stay under observance and his probation will last one year.
Jigme Gyatso told sources that he was severely tortured after his arrest in March 2008. The interrogators beat him continuously and hanged him by his feet from the ceiling for hours and kept him tied for days on the interrogation chair. During the interrogations he fainted several times due to the beatings. After May 12 when the region was shaken by strong earthquakes beatings stopped and after August 11 there was a noticeable improvement.
A big crowd of fellow monks and nearby Tibetans gave him an emotional welcome at Labrang Tashikyil monastery on October 15. According to sources in Tibet who were present, the crowd cheered him and thanked him for filming the documentary "Leaving Fear Behind".
The welfare and whereabouts of Dhondup Wangchen were unknown at the end of 2008.
Many thanks for all those who took urgent action for the filmmakers. Please continue to campaign for Dhondup Wangchen.
