The US has once again urged China on Thursday to release the person identified by Tibetans as Panchen Lama. The US has also warned China against seeing this story connected with the succession of the Dalai Lama.
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On May 14, 1995, the six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nima was called the rebirth of the Panchen Lama by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and exiled Tibetan godman Dalai Lama. This child was taken into custody after three days, and since then no one has seen him. Human rights groups called it the youngest political prisoner in the world.
Sam Brownback, Ambassador-at-Large of International Religious Freedom in the US State Department, said, "We continue to pressurize the Chinese administration to release the Panchen Lama… Be freed, and tell the world that Where are they… "
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