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Village Leaders Sentenced

April 4, 2014;

Ngangtak, 54, and Rigsal, 31, who are both village leaders in Mokhyim village in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham, have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. They allegedly failed to fulfill their duties as leaders when residents did not obey Chinese government orders to fly the Chinese National flag from their rooftops in September last year, and failed to suppress protests in Mokhyim last year. Another Tibetan man named Trigyal from the same village has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

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