Unidentified Tibetan woman standing with unconscious protestors piled inside a police station after demonstration in Lhasa, 1988
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- Name
- Tibet Information Network (Collector)
- Title
- Unidentified Tibetan woman standing with unconscious protestors piled inside a police station after demonstration in Lhasa, 1988
- Abstract
- Photograph of an unidentified Tibetan woman standing with unconscious protestors piled inside a police station after demonstration in Lhasa, watched by a plain clothed police officer.
- Collection Name
- Tibet Information Network (TIN) Archive
- Subjects
- Police brutality; Human rights; Tibetans; Lhasa (China)
- Format
- photographs
- Genre
- Documentary photographs
- Publication Information
- Tibetan Bulletin. 1988-12-10
- Date
- 10 December 1988
- Physical Description
- 10.2 x 15.2 cm
- Note
- Photograph was taken by official Chinese photographers for police records and have been smuggled out of the country by underground groups in Tibet. Tibetan Bulletin, Tibet News, November-December 1991, page 16 The Aftermath of the Protest, Set 3, Phot o 2-3 Annotation on back: Unconscious protestors, some bleeding, inside Barkhor Police Station after being beaten for demonstrating for International Human Rights day and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Plain clothes police can be seen, some wearing dark glasses and white gloves. Tibetan woman standing at the side was a demonstrator who was later beaten and released. She was re-arrested in March 1989 and died three years later following her release. First Western release of photos - 10 April 1991
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- Copyright Undetermined
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-dbwg-nz87