Tibetan Uprising
Tibet monk in hiding tells of interrogation, abuse Posted: 15 Sep 2008 12:16 AM CDT
By CHRISTOPHER BODEENBEIJING (AP)

- Jigme, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, says he had just finished having a pair of shoes mended when four uniformed guards jumped from a white van and dragged him inside.Suppressing his calls to a passing nun for help, they shoved a sack over his head and drove him to a guesthouse run by the local paramilitary People's Armed Police.What followed, according to Jigme, was two months of interrogation and abuse over his suspected role in this spring's uprising against Chinese rule across Tibet and a broad swath of Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China. (more…)