Kate Saunders (Tibet specialist)

Kate Saunders (born 1964) is an English author, journalist and specialist of Tibet and China. Her articles have been published in newspapers and magazines worldwide including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Washington Post, and The Independent. She has a column in The Sunday Guardian.

Biography

In the early 1990s, Kate Saunders traveled to India to work on a tiger sanctuary, and during this trip, she met Tibetan monks whose story decided her to act on Tibet issue upon her return in England.[1]

She is a founder of the Laogai Research Group, UK and worked for the release of Harry Wu a Chinese prison in the late 1990.[2]

She became an analyst and writer for Tibet Information Network and is currently the director of communication of International Campaign for Tibet.[3][4]

She has been a contributor to radio, with interview appearing on Radio Australia Asia-Pacific,[5] BBC World Service and other BBC programs.[6][7][8]

In 2006, after the Nangpa La shooting incident, although difficult to get people to talk to journalists, she convinced direct witnesses, Steve Lawes and Luis Benitez, who accepted to meet Tibetan refugees, which led him to talk to media[9][10]

One of her conference scheduled on Tibet crisis at Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong in 2009 was postponed after request by the China's Foreign Ministry stating to be « firmly opposed Tibetan separatists to come to Hong Kong for any separatist activities ».[11][12]

At two Tibet lawsuits in Spain, she was a witness, and gave expert evidence in Spain’s National Court in Madrid, in April 2009 and in December 2012.[13][14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ Isabel Losada, For Tibet, With Love: A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World, 1er édition 2004, 2011, p. 103
  2. ↑ Kate Saunders, Eighteen Layers of Hell: Stories from the Chinese Gulag, 1996, p. 260 : "She is a founder of the Laogai Research Group in the UK and was active in the campaign for Harry Wu's release from Chinese custody"
  3. ↑ Biography of Kate Saunders, International Campaign for Tibet
  4. ↑ Kate Saunders, Huffington Post
  5. ↑ Teachers receive long prison sentences on espionage charges, Radio Australia Asia-Pacific, 11 June 2002
  6. ↑ Jill McGivering, China's quandary over Tibet's futur, BBC News, 20 March 2008, China defends Tibet plans, 10 March 2003
  7. ↑ Tibetan self-immolation triggers clash in China, BBC News China, 14 January 2012
  8. ↑ Tibetans denounce China's plans for lama, BBC News, 9 August 2001
  9. ↑ Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya, PublicAffairs, 2010. ISBN 9781586487140, p. 178-181
  10. ↑ Jonathan Green, A murder in the shadow of Everest. Why was an innocent Tibetan nun gunned down by Chinese soldiers in the Himalayas?, 12 june 2010, Mail Online
  11. ↑ Tibet Speech In Hong Kong Postponed After China Complains-Organizers, EasyBourse.comMarch 18, 2009
  12. ↑ 2009.04.06 - FCC club lunch with Kate Saunders
  13. ↑ Using the Universal Jurisdiction Law to Hold China Accountable: The Tibet cases and Political Pressure in Spain, University of Westminster, 28 february 2014
  14. ↑ Comité de Apoyo al Tíbet, International Experts Testify in Spain's National Court as Tension Mounts and the Self-Immolations in Tibet, 27 December 2012
  15. ↑ Kate Saunders, Spain hears Tibet lawsuits, upholds universal jurisdiction, February 25, 2013
  16. ↑ ICT testifies in Spain’s National Court on Chinese leadership policies in Tibet, International Campaign for Tibet on December 30, 2012

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