Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile steps up campaign against China’s Ethnic Unity Law

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New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile intensified its campaign in New Delhi against China’s newly introduced Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, holding a series of meetings with Indian Union Minister of State and Members of Parliament while warning that the legislation could further tighten Beijing’s control over Tibetans and other ethnic minorities, according to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).

The outreach programme, led by Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, entered its fourth day with two parliamentary delegations meeting lawmakers across party lines to raise concerns over what the CTA described as China’s latest legal mechanism for accelerating the assimilation of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and other non-Han communities.

According to the CTA, one delegation met Lok Sabha members Dr. Byreddy Shabari, N.K. Premachandran, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, while the second delegation held discussions with Unio...

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