The International Red Cross
met Monday with a Mongolian government official to request information
about people detained following the post-election rioting in July.
Tieri Mierat, a Head of the
East Asian Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross met
with Mrs. Solongo, The Chief Commissioner of the National Human Rights
Commission of Mongolia. Tieri Mierat said he was seeking general
information about those rioters being held in jail, as well as more
specific details about eight prisoners who had begun a hunger strike.
Rioting followed this year’s
national elections on the night of July 1. Rioters, claiming fraudulent
elections, burned down the headquarters of the ruling Mongolian Revolutionary
People’s Party, as well as businesses and an art museum.
Five people died during the
riots and many were detained.
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