ABSTRACT
In Tashi Tsering's petition he had made three points. The first was that he was an innocent victim of the Cultural Revolution because he had been unjustly denounced and imprisoned as a Tibetan nationalist and an American spy. Tashi Tsering was neither of those things and never had been. The second point was that he had been imprisoned and persecuted without a formal trial, to which he had a right, and that Tashi Tsering was released without any formal resolution of his status or the case. The third point was that he now had a wife who lived in Lhasa while his work unit was in Xianyang, and that although it was party policy to allow husbands and wives to live together, Tashi Tsering's work unit was refusing to permit him to transfer to Lhasa. His petition was an emotional document.
