FYI: Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen risked everything

From: Mark Freeman [[email protected]]

Dear Colleagues,

Amnesty International has launched a new appeal to free Tibetan Filmmaker
Dhondup Wangchen.

Even if you have taken action before, please consider adding your voice to
this new appeal.

Thank you,

Mark Freeman
Professor
School of Theatre, Television, and Film
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182-7601
Ph  619 594-5497
Fax 619 594-1391
http://www.markfreemanfilms.org

"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of
nearly every other form of freedom." - Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

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From: Jasmine at Amnesty International USA <[email protected]=
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Free Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen

Speak now. Open the door for a prisoner of
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"*In Tibet, the Chinese authorities are making Tibetan people suffer. For
these reasons my father risked his freedom and his life."*

- *Tenzin Dadon, Dhondup Wangchen's daughter*

Show solidarity with Dhondup, his wife Lhamo Tso, and their daughter Tenzin=
.

Dear Mark,

When Dhondup Wangchen picked up a video camera for the first time in his
life, he knew it was at great personal risk.

His film, "Leaving Fear Behind," criticizes China's promise of greater
freedom in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. *China's repression in
Tibet has only worsened.*

Dhondup Wangchen was severely punished for the film. Tried in secret,
tortured and denied treatment for his health condition, Dhondup Wangchen is
serving an unbelievable 6-year sentence for "inciting separatism."

Demand Dhondup Wangchen's immediate and unconditional
release.<http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=3DbhKPK5MKIiLOL0PQG&s=3DhmIYIiO5Ls=
J2IcPRIqH&m=3DnkKWK7PRLjITIfI>

Dhondup Wangchen is one of 10 urgent human rights cases highlighted in
Amnesty International's *2013 Write for Rights campaign*, the world's
largest and most effective letter-writing event.

Tibetans need strong voices like Dhondup Wangchen's to stand with them
against the assault on their human rights:

   - Nomads are evicted from their pastures

    - Schoolchildren are expelled for requesting Tibetan textbooks

    - Monasteries are under constant surveillance

Several Tibetans have responded with desperate acts of protest =96 includin=
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setting themselves on fire =96 as a last attempt to demand the same freedom
and rights to which every human being is entitled.

Use your voice to free prisoner of conscience Dhondup
Wangchen.<http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=3DeuLVLeNWKlKUJaO3E&s=3DhmIYIiO5L=
sJ2IcPRIqH&m=3DnkKWK7PRLjITIfI>

Each one of us, acting together, has the power to open a prison door and
free someone whose human rights are being violated.

Dhondup Wangchen risked everything =96 his family, his livelihood, his life=
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to help the Tibetan people speak of their views and their suffering to the
world. Let's show him it was worth it.

Take action now.<http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=3D7dJHLTOuEeJGKQNCG&s=3Dhm=
IYIiO5LsJ2IcPRIqH&m=3DnkKWK7PRLjITIfI>

In solidarity,

Jasmine Heiss
Campaigner, Individuals and Communities at Risk
Amnesty International USA

PS - Write for Rights is about writing letters and connecting people who
care about human rights =96 and we are halfway to our goal of 75,000
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