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Prison sentence

March 7, 2014;

Lobsang Soepa, 43-year-old monk from the Drenpa monastery in Dzoege County in Tibet was sentenced last July to three years in prison by a Chinese court in the Sichuan province. Reports have only just come through of his detention which was for his alleged involvement in anti-China protests. He is currently serving his prison term in a jail in Marthang County. Soepa is a native of Changtsa Choegyal village in Dzoege County. He was also detained in 2011 for distributing leaflets calling for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet.

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