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Eight people in Derge County have been given sentences of up to nine years for their alleged involvement in a 2012 protest when a Tibetan named Tashi destroyed a police station using a petrol bomb. Tashi was protesting against the increase in police stations across Tibet after the 2008 uprising, he was killed in the blast.The eight are: Yeshi, Pema Norbu, Jiga, Tsering Phuntsok, Bugoh, Gendun, Lhaksam and Sugoen.
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