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More Tibetans Sentenced

July 22, 2013;

A Chinese court in Silling, eastern Tibet has sentenced three Tibetans for up to ten years in prison for trying to rescue a Tibetan self-immolator from falling into the hands of Chinese authorities. Doptrug, 51, was sentenced to ten years, Ugyen Dorjee, 40, to 21 months and Choekyab to 18 months for taking part in a protest demanding the body of Tibetan self-immolator Lobsang Gedun in December 2012.

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