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Khenpo Kartse Released

July 16, 2016;

Khenpo Kartse, also known as Khenpo Karma Tsewang, the popular religious figure and well respected abbot of Jhapa monastery in Kham Nangchen, has been released after serving his two and a half year sentence. Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan service reports that he was released on June 6; details of his condition of health are not known. Khenpo was arrested on December 7, 2013 on suspicion of involvement in anti-state activities.

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