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Death in Prison

February 18, 2021;

A Tibetan tour guide serving a 21-year prison sentence for reporting protests in his native region 7 years ago has died in a hospital in Lhasa. Kunchok Jinpa, 51, was transferred to the hospital 3 months ago without his family’s knowledge. Local sources said he suffered from a brain hemorrhage and was paralyzed. Jinpa was educated at Suja school in Himachal Pradesh and attended the Tibetan Studies Institute in Varanasi. He returned to Tibet in 1998.

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