Tashi Wangchuk, 32, the Tibetan who was arrested last year and charged with “inciting separatism” is to go on trial on January 4 and is facing up to 15 years in prison. He was arrested following a New York Times article about his campaign for the right for Tibetans in Tibet to be educated in Tibetan and not wholly in Chinese. International human rights groups have been campaigning for his release.