The suspect was arrested on March 15 of charges of accepting the clique's orders and undertaking secessionist activities, including beating, smashing, looting and arson, in Lhasa on March 14.

Evidence showed that the suspect was a core member of the rioters who have been connected to the Dalai clique since November 2006 with the goal of carrying out the following activities:

-- The suspect cultivated 12 intelligence agents and established a tight underground intelligence network in Tibet to conduct secessionist activities, prompted by the official from the "security ministry" of the Dalai clique.

-- The agents used code words to contact each other in the intelligence network, such as calling the Dalai Lama "Uncle" and the Tibetan flag a "skirt", with clergy smuggled into Tibet being called "guests".

-- The suspect transmitted information 36 times to an official of the clique via the Internet. The information that he had collected from March 2007 to March 2008 domestically included domestic clerics' so-called "rejection of criticism of the Dalai Lama," and the so-called "killing of wild animals and ecological destruction" in Tibet.

-- The suspect also received information about the Dalai Lama's activities from the Dalai clique, produced disks and distributed these in Tibet.

The ministry revealed that the suspect and his intelligence network also spread propaganda supporting the Dalai clique and disputing China's religious policies in Tibetan monasteries.

After the Lhasa riot on March 14, agents in Tibet and officials of the clique had more frequent contacts. The official sent the "Declaration of Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" to the suspect, who later made copies of it and distributed it in Lhasa. The suspect also mobilized agents in the intelligence network to collect information and report to the Dalai clique.

The suspect who directly organized and participated in the Lhasa riot on March 14 has confessed to all of the accusations above.

Police officers have also arrested several persons who were suspected of participating in the riot. Preliminary police investigations found the proof of these activities and communication between the suspects and officials of the Dalai clique.

The suspect, Ngagwang Namgyi, admitted that he has undertaken secessionist activities for nearly 20 years. Ngagwang Namgyi was legally punished in 1989 as a monk in Lhasa's Zhebung Monastery for participating in a riot in the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region that year.

"I owned five groceries in Doilungdeqen (a county on the outskirts of Lhasa) and six of the employees have criminal records. We have undertaken secessionist activities," said Ngagwang Namgyi, against whom testimony was given by other suspects.

The police have found that the Internet became an important channel for the Dalai clique to release its orders, many parts of the "Declaration of Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" and action plans.