Geshe Tsultrim Nyandak, 40, of Rapten Monastery in Driru has been given a nine-year prison sentence. He was arrested in December 2012 in Lhasa, and then disappeared. His family have now been notified of his sentence and his whereabouts at Lhasa’s Chushul prison. There are reports that his health has deteriorated while in the detention centre, and that his family have been refused permission to provide medical aid.