The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has reported the arrest and subsequent sentencing of three Tibetans in Tibet’s Sangchu County between 2008 and 2009. Rigzin Tsering, 40, was sentenced to 12 years, Nyingchak Gyal, 44, and Tashi Tsering, 33, were sentenced to five and seven years in prison respectively, for their participation in a protest in March 2008. “The sentences were passed in 2009 in the aftermath of the 2008 uprising in Tibet, but due to the tightened control over information, their fate had remained unknown till today” said TCHRD.