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Released After Five Years

June 27, 2016;

Tsering, also known as Tsering Yoyoling and a former monk from Kirti monastery has been released after serving his five year sentence at Sichuan’s Deyang prison. He was taken home to Ngaba; his family had not been told to expect him but local sources report no restrictions on visits to his home from family and friends. He was detained for taking part in protests outside the Ngaba county office during the wider regional uprising in 2008 but he managed to evade capture until 2011 by living as a fugitive

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