These latest verdicts are the first death sentences meted out by Chinese courts to those who took part in protests that swept Lhasa and other Tibetan cities in the spring of 2008. Since these trials took place in complete isolation from the rest of the world, with no impartial observers or foreign journalists present, it is to be doubted, strongly, that the defendants received anything remotely like a fair trial in accordance with international judicial standards.
这是自从2008年春天的那场席卷拉萨和西藏其他城市的骚乱以来，中国法庭首次对参与那场抗议的人士宣判死刑。由于法庭审判是完全封闭的，既没有独立观察员参加也没有外国记者的在场。按照国际审判标准来看，被告很有可能没有受到公正的审判。