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Monk Sentenced

November 23, 2013;

China’s Intermediate People’s Court in Ngaba prefecture has sentenced a Tibetan monk from Jonang Monastery in Zamthang County last month. Hortsang Tamdrin, a writer and a social activist, was sentenced to over four years for “calling for Tibet’s independence, committing actions aimed at ‘splitting the nation’ and for promoting special recognition for self-immolators”, a source told RFA.

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