Dinner Table Discussion

Treatment of Political and Religious Prisoners by the Peoples Republic of China

Bhuchung Tsering & Tashi Namgyal

BHUCHRUNG TSERING is Director of the International Campaign for Tibet. He testified to the 2001 Congressional Human Rights Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives and at the 2000 Hearing on Human Rights in China and Tibet of the House Committee on International Relations.

TASHI NAMGYAL spent over 25 years in the service of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. His service included: 1998-1999 Joint Secretary, Department of Security; 1993-1998 Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Nepal; and 1992-1993 Deputy Secretary, Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration in India. Currently Mr. Namgyal works for an energy company in Seattle, where he is President of the Tibetan Association of Washington. He has a Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University, India.

Following his escape from the Chinese invasion of Eastern Tibet at age five or six, Tashi Namgyal literally grew up all by himself from the age of seven or eight. He visited his mother and other siblings in Tibet for the first time in his life in 2005, after 46 years' absence.