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Khenpo Kartse, renowned Buddhist teacher and abbott of Japa Monastery, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Kartse, who was arrested in December 2013 and detained until now for allegedly harboring a fugitive monk, was sentenced in a secret trial Chamdo Prefecture. The abbott’s lawyer was permitted to meet with Kartse twice, and eventually retracted the case under pressure from the government.
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