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Tibetan Youth Sentenced

August 24, 2013;

A Chinese court has sentenced a Tibetan youth to two years in prison for self-immolation links. Dorjee was accused for having connection with a self-immolation protest by Gudrup, 43, on October 4 last year. Dorjee is currently held at a prison in Toelung Dechen county, sources said. He was among several others who were arrested from Lhasa two days after Gudrup’s self-immolation protest.

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