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When and how Contact will re-emerge and evolve will be determined by those who become involved.

Prisoner Released

January 28, 2015;

Jamyang Tenzin, 41, a Tibetan political prisoner has been released after completion of his three year sentence. A monk at the Yonru Geyden Rabgayling monastery in Lithang, Kardze, in the Sichuan province, he was detained in 2007 for resisting a political re-education campaign at his monastery. Jamyang was released in 2010 in poor health following torture in prison, but later re-arrested and sentenced to three years in prison.

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