Melody in Prison: Ngawang Choephel
	UPDATE 3 May 1999

We haven't ascertained when the statement and petition below were released, but we received it on this date.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, USA GROUP # 148 "Missing in Tibet" Ngawang Choephel is a musicologist who has devoted his life to traditional Tibetan performing arts. He studied in the United States as a Fulbright scholar and returned to Tibet in 1995 to document musical and other artistic material. Since then, he has been arrested, tried in secret without legal representation, and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for this innocent activity. He has never advocated or used violence and has never worked against the regime. He has been adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. Please help us petition for his immediate and unconditional release NAME ADDRESS