Lobsang Choedar, a Tibetan monk who is serving a 13 year sentence in Mianyang prison in Sichuan, is said to be in poor health and his family are concerned that he may not survive his prison term. He is a monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba and was detained after calling for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the unrest in 2008.