Tashi Rabten (pen-name Theu rang), a writer and university student, was released from Mianyang prison in Sichuan. Tashi was the editor of the banned literary magazine the Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain) and wrote the book “Trag yig” (Written in Blood). He was missing from July 2009 until April 2010 when he was traced to a detention centre in Barkham county, Ngaba. In June 2011 he was sentenced in a closed trial to four years’ imprisonment on charges of “inciting activities to split the nation”.