In one case, the families of two Nepalese citizens sentenced to death in Tibet had not heard from the defendants for four months and read about their death sentences in a Kathmandu newspaper. (The Government of China has informed me that their death sentences were subsequently commuted and that regular contact had been maintained with the Nepalese consulate during the trial proceedings.) More generally, the ability of family and lawyers to visit death-row prisoners is sometimes very limited, and there are many reports of relatives being denied access to condemned prisoners, or of executions being carried out without relatives being informed of the failure of final appeals.
In one case, the families of two Nepalese citizens sentenced to death in Tibet had not heard from the defendants for four months and read about their death sentences in a Kathmandu newspaper. (The Government of China has informed me that their death sentences were subsequently commuted and that regular contact had been maintained with the Nepalese consulate during the trial proceedings.) More generally, the ability of family and lawyers to visit death-row prisoners is sometimes very limited, and there are many reports of relatives being denied access to condemned prisoners, or of executions being carried out without relatives being informed of the failure of final appeals.