Tibetan students Semba Caijang and Doudou Caijang during their trial.
Two Tibetan students from Hainan Prefecture in Qinghai Province were charged with splitting the country for publicly displaying the so-called “illegal team flag and emblem” at a soccer match and uploading pictures of them on the Internet, according to a Feb. 23 news release from Rights Defense Network.
One of the students was sentenced and one was exonerated by the Hainan Intermediate Court in Qinghai Province on Aug. 3 of last year.
According to reports, the authorities accused a Tibetan student, Cengba Caijang, of storing illegal pictures in Qzone that were suspected of “splitting the country and undermining national unity,” and charged another defendant, Douchang Caijang, a Tibetan student, with contacting Cengba Caijang to obtain the “illegal pictures” and then The other defendant, a Tibetan student, was accused of obtaining the “illegal pictures” and then designing a soccer team flag and emblem that contained “incitement to split the country and undermine national unity” and displaying them publicly to the audience at the Sixth Qinghai Republican County “Sacred Lake Cup” soccer tournament. The authorities accused the two of uploading the relevant pictures to their WeChat circle of friends afterwards, “causing bad political influence”.
The Hainan Intermediate Court sentenced Xianba Caijang to one year and six months in prison, two years of probation, and one year of deprivation of political rights for “inciting secession.
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