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Ngaba Tibetans Sentenced

October 23, 2013;

China has sentenced three Tibetans from Khyungchu County in Tibet’s Ngaba region for preventing police and authorities from putting off the fire on Tibetan self-immolator Dupchok on 18 January. A Kyungchu County court has sentenced Gurgon and Sonam Yarphel to four years’ term each, and Norbu Dorjee to five years. The trial took place in July but news of their sentences has surfaced only now. They are currently in Sichuan province’s Mianyang Prison.

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