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Article: Human rights group: 2001 was another year for rights abuses in Tibet
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- January 7, 2002
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Dateline: DHARAMSALA, India
Ten Tibetans died in Chinese custody last year, including five who
were fatally tortured, and the number of political prisoners also
rose, a human rights organization said Monday.
"Evidence of these violations fly in the face of Chinese government
propaganda which advertised an improvement in the living conditions
and human rights situation," said the Tibetan Center for Human Rights
and Democracy in its annual report on alleged abuses in Tibet.
The Chinese authorities arrested 37 political prisoners last year
in Tibet, bringing the total to 254 who were in custody, said the
report from the rights center in Dharamsala, where Tibet's ...