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Sonam Yarphel, 34, who was jailed for his role in protests in March 2008, has been released after serving six years of his 12-year prison sentence. There is no apparent reason for his release. He received a hero’s welcome at his home village of Dilyu in Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) prefecture’s Draggo (Luhuo) county in China’s Sichuan province.
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