§ David TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions the Government has held with the Chinese government on Tibetan political prisoners. [163679]
§ Mr. RammellI personally raised the case of one Tibetan political prisoner with Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui in Beijing on 17 December 2003.
Tibetan political prisoners are included on the list of individual cases of concern which we hand over to the Chinese authorities, in the context of our biannual Human Rights Dialogue. The most recent dialogue round was held in Beijing on 10–11 November 2003.
Phuntsog Nyidrol one of the prisoners on our list was released earlier this month.
The EU also includes Tibetans on its list of individual cases.