Gangkye Drubpa Kyab, 36, a popular Tibetan writer and teacher, has been released from prison a year before the end of his five and a half year term and returned to his village in Kardze in Serthar county. He was held in Sichuan’s Minyak Rangakha prison. Kyab’s writings about the 2008 protest movement in Tibet were published in exile in 2013 as A Year Written in Blood.