Kate Saunders (Tibet specialist) explained

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, writer and spokesperson for Tibet Information Network. She was the director of communication of International Campaign for Tibet (ITC)^{[3] [4]} and is currently the Director of Research at the ICT Washington, DC office.^[5] She has been a contributor to radio, with interview appearing on Radio Australia,^[6] BBC World Service and other BBC programs.^{[7] [8] [9]}

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^[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]}

External links

• The Himalayas, Kate Saunders, The Sunday Guardian

Notes and References

1. [Isabel Losada]
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. http://www.savetibet.org/us/staff/index.php?id=12 Biography of Kate Saunders
4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-saunders Kate Saunders
5. Web site: Our Team - International Campaign for Tibet. 2019-11-15. web.savetibet.org. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191115092508/https://savetibet.org/what-we-do/our-team/. 2019-11-15. 2019-11-22.
6. http://www.tibet.ca/en/library/wtn/archive/old?y=2002&m=6&p=11_4 Teachers receive long prison sentences on espionage charges
7. Jill McGivering, China's quandary over Tibet's futur, BBC News, 20 March 2008, China defends Tibet plans, 10 March 2003
8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-16561227 Tibetan self-immolation triggers clash in China
9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1482032.stm Tibetans denounce China's plans for lama
10. [Jonathan Green (journalist)|Jonathan Green]
11. http://www.tibet.ca/en/library/wtn/5831 Tibet Speech In Hong Kong Postponed After China Complains-Organizers
12. http://fcchk.org/event/2009-04-06-fcc-club-lunch-kate-saunders 2009.04.06 - FCC club lunch with Kate Saunders
13. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/emerging-powers/events/using-the-universal-jurisdiction-law-to-hold-china-accountable-the-tibet-cases-and-political-pressure-in-spain Using the Universal Jurisdiction Law to Hold China Accountable: The Tibet cases and Political Pressure in Spain
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. http://www.savetibet.org/ict-testifies-in-spains-national-court-on-chinese-leadership-policies-in-tibet/ ICT testifies in Spain’s National Court on Chinese leadership policies in Tibet