Yonten Sangpo has just been released from jail in poor health, after spending more than a year there without a trial. He was shot and wounded in early February 2012 by the Chinese police as they raided his home looking for the leaders of a protest held a month earlier in Draggo. His two brothers were killed in the raid and his mother and children wounded. He sustains gunshot wounds to the jaw and to the spine that make talking and walking difficult.