Meeting with Speaker of Exiling Tibetan Parliament

At the invitation of Dr. Yang Jianli, founder and president of "Citizen Power for China", a human rights organization, who is also honorary chairman of "Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights", on July 24, 2015, members of "Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights" attended a meeting in Washington DC with Mr. Penpa Tsering, speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, and gained first hand knowledge about the democratic political system that the exiling Tibetans established in India.

Dr. Yang Jianli hosted the meeting and introduced to people attending the meeting about Mr. Penpa Tsering, who announced at the meeting that he will run for the position of prime minister of the exiling Tibetan government in August 2015.

Members of "Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights" expressed their interest in getting to know more about the experiment of a democratic political system by the exiling Tibetans, and wished that they could have more opportunities to interact with the Tibetans about the issue.

Those members of "Chinese Coalition for Citizens Rights" attending today's meeting include: Liu Jingnan, Jin Lianhua, and Piao Yingmei.