Compassion, Yes we can Folteren in Tibet gaat nog steeds door 4 okt 2008 Klik op bovenstaande tekst om het pdf bestand te bekijken. UN demands answers on Chinese torture The United Nations has presented China with a long list of questions about its alleged human rights abuses. By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai 25 Sep 2008 China will have to answer the questions during two hearings in Geneva at the beginning of November. The UN Committee against Torture excoriated China for the "continued pervasiveness" of torture "in the criminal justice system". It demanded a list of all the people detained in connection with the riots in Tibet in March, including their current location and convictions. It also asked for an explanation as to why detainees were denied access to a doctor during their imprisonment both before and after trial. "At least 30 persons were found guilty and sentenced less than six weeks after the events, please clarify the basis of these sentences," the committee asked. It demanded full details about the number of people who were killed in the riots, which spread from Tibet into the neighbouring provinces of Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai. Reports at the time suggested that over 100 people had died in clashes with security forces. The list of questions, which is dated August 2008, emerged just after Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, made China's first address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. It also coincided with a Chinese "White Paper" on the "protection and development of Tibetan culture." According to Xinhua, the state news agency, the white paper was designed to "give the international community a better understanding of the reality of the protection and development of Tibetan culture" and to refute charges of "the so-called cultural genocide" in the regio.