NOT SO long ago, Latham & Watkins associates Karen Barnett and Jeffrey Whyte could hardly have imagined themselves as the lawyers for a Tibetan monk seeking asylum after his harrowing escape from the Chinese police.
But yesterday morning, they appeared before immigration officials on behalf of Lortsel Gyamtso, a young man who rebelled against the Beijing rule of Tibet, and whose father was one of many Tibetans imprisoned and tortured after an unsuccessful uprising against the Chinese government in 1959. Recently, Mr. Gyamtso – who entered a Buddhist monastery after being expelled from school for his anti-China activities – was imprisoned for protesting Chinese environmental policy in Tibet.
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